David Gardner Quotes

Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

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

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

Schools should be held accountable for results.

The best schools in Arizona are charter schools. The worst schools in Arizona are charter schools.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.

If we’re going to be the world’s leader, we have to pick up the pace of American education, especially in math and science.

I’m running for Governor so that all our children can go to kindergarten.

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

The only way communities will have great schools is if the people demand it.

If people are persuaded of the need for education and the need to invest in education, they're also persuaded of the need not to waste that investment by having low-quality education but to have high-quality education.

Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.