Educational Resources Quotes

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

In Congress, I will fight for an education system that bridges the opportunity gap in order to help close the achievement gap, and prioritize models that sustain and enrich whole people and communities.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

Education is the number one priority.

It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

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

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.

At the end of the day, I'm certainly hopeful they can leave some time to focus on Tennessee history. But we understand the struggle when it comes to curriculum time and what you just physically don't have time for.

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

My older brother bought textbooks and was able to teach himself enough to go to college. When I was 16, he returned and told me to do the same thing.

The Brian Ortega Foundation will cater to all people who have all kinds of problems.

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.