Beacons Quote by Howard Gardner

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a…

— Timothy Noah

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

— Ed Markey

You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.

— Paul Kengor

...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and…

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Barack Obama

Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise…

— Arne Duncan

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

— Clark Kerr

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

[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if…

— Amartya Sen

“However, not only are fortunes equal in America, equality extends to some degree to intelligence itself. I do not think that there is a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous…

— Bill Gates