Bumps Quote by Christopher Titus

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

— Barack Obama

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free.…

— Noam Chomsky

“In Finland, all education schools were selective. Getting into a teacher-training program there was as prestigious as getting into medical school in the United…

— Amanda Ripley

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

— Howard Gardner

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in…

— Mitt Romney

You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids,…

— John Merrow

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

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

— Clark Kerr

“The more time I spent in Finland, the more I started to worry that the reforms sweeping across the United States had the equation…

— Amanda Ripley

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

— David Puttnam

“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

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