Look Quote by Mo Farah

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing…

— Michelle Rhee

We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to…

— Barack Obama

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be…

— Alma Adams

School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, is to…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters…

— Muhammad Yunus

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed…

— Albert Shanker

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our…

— Condoleezza Rice

There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually…

— Dana Goldstein

“The reality for teachers is we don’t know if we’ve been successful or not. It takes years to see how a kid turns out,…

— Tucker Elliot

The reason why I'm so passionate about turning around failing schools is that children who have the misfortune to go to unsucccessful institutions are…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis