Action Quote by Jim Brown

We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government…

— Ronald Reagan

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I…

— John Taylor Gatto

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

— Anonymous

I am committed to elevating our public schools.

— Tate Reeves

New York has one of the largest school systems in the country, but it's one of the best school systems in the country. I…

— Sheila Dixon

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create…

— Dan Simmons

“Our schools today are probably further away from self-management than most other types of organizations. We have turned schools, almost everywhere, into soulless factories…

— Frederic Laloux

I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the '50s and…

— Deval Patrick

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that…

— Daniel Quinn

Most departments of education are set up largely to regulate schools and hold them in compliance. They don't really help schools. When a school…

— Pedro Noguera

I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing…

— Linda Lingle

The ideal direction is using something like Khan Academy for every student to work at their own pace, to master concepts before moving on,…

— Sal Khan