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Education Quotes by Barack Obama

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Barack Obama says a good education opens doors to opportunity and a stable middle‑class life. He stresses that schools need enough teachers, computers, and funding, and that cutting core investments hurts future growth. He also notes that preparing kids for a competitive world requires strong math and reading scores.

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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

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Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

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Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

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Public school system status quo is indefensible.

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The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.

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I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the…

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Im asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country, goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security & the deficit.

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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

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Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

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I dont believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy.

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Give schools the resources to keep good eachers on the job and reward the best ones.

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I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can…

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Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and its our job to make sure they do.

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If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or…

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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we…

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“But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low…

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If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have…

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In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should…

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Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All…

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We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math…

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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that…

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Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once…

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The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not.…

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When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going…

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So 77 government programs, everything from aircrafts that the Air Force had ordered but weren't working very well, 18 government...18 government programs…

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“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality;…

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America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number…

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Now, if you take such an unbalanced approach, then that means you are going to be gutting our investments in schools and…

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In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to…

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Education was the gateway to opportunity for me and for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a…

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One of the best investments we can make in a childs life is high-quality early education.

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Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America.

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I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class…

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I am sending this Congress a bold new plan to lower the cost of community college to zero.

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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

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Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.

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If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

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