Building Quote by Davis Guggenheim Download Open image “Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.” — Davis Guggenheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Economy Kids Modern Toward
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically. — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished… — Diane Watson Copy Share Image
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I do a lot of audio-only interviews at first just to capture a feeling and go deeper, as if you're having the most quiet,… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The more I work, the more I try to keep myself open like a raw nerve. When I feel things in a story, I… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Underneath it, in 'An Inconvenient Truth', we talked a lot about the unspoken decisions that people make in their heads. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I don't like it when a filmmaker has an agenda and I don't know it. When the contract is not clear, that's when there's… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a realization that's hiding beneath the surface, and maybe that's what documentaries can do best, is to try to unpack that… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Is being negative more journalistic for some reason? I don't know. But I don't set out to make puff pieces and I don't set… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves can see. — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education movement, it… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading… — Jim Cummings Copy Share
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image