Neil Bush Quotes

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

We cannot educate children who are not healthy, and we cannot have healthy children without education.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants.

The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

I don’t know any parent who wants to send his children to a below average school.

Education, day care, health care—there's not a parent in the country that doesn't have a stake in one of these issues.

A parent who is high is unavailable to attend to the needs of a child.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.

We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.

We are spending a lot of money on our schools. We’ve got to make ourselves accountable for the results.

I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing kids and, therefore, we wouldn’t have a problem at all. But what’s missing in that equation is that you do have a lot of parents in this country who are very involved in their children’s education and who do want something better. They want to see better for their kids. They know that they’re in schools that aren’t performing particularly well and if you look at how we treat those parents, it is quite poorly.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.