Marc Veasey Quotes

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

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

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.

My People First Education plan includes universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, because the research is very clear that if you have a dollar to spend in education, it's best spent early on with high-quality pre-K so that kids can get off to a strong start.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial.

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next.

I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.

Teach for America has helped us understand what works and what doesn't.

I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.

As a former board member for Teach For America, I understand that every child has the ability to learn and that, no matter their circumstances at home, we have a duty and a responsibility to educate them and to do it well.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.

People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.