Education Needs Quotes

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on. If students can't see the blackboard, need eyeglasses, we need to do that. If students need a social worker or counselor to work through the challenges they're facing at home in the community, we need to do that.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

We don't have a lot of technology people in Congress, so one of the basic things is to help people be educated on how technology works: what's there, where is it headed, what some of the challenges and opportunities are.

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.

I've visited schools all across our state, and the message is clear. Our kids have needs today, and our educators need more resources to do their jobs.