Activism Quote by Bill Gates

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single…

— David Puttnam

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

— Eva Moskowitz

I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a…

— Tyler Cowen

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be…

— Thomas Sowell

“Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in…

— Diane Ravitch

But, before we in America critique East Asia, we must also recognize that we are - unfortunately - taking on some of the same…

— Henry Rosovsky

The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as…

— Jules Henry

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in…

— Mitch Daniels

This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children…

— Arne Duncan

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third.…

— Christopher Titus

There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just…

— Dana Goldstein

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr