American education Quote by Lincoln Chafee

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in…

— Janet Napolitano

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to…

— H. G. Wells

I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system, our government,…

— Michael Scheuer

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't…

— Colin Powell

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those…

— Donna Edwards

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's…

— Rudy Giuliani

After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources…

— Amartya Sen

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

— Jared Polis

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe.…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly…

— John Taylor Gatto

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really…

— Sarah Palin