Big problem Quote by Thomas Sowell

Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I completely understand…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and…

— Lori Lightfoot

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of…

— Diane Ravitch

There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend…

— Jared Polis

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

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

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and…

— Jose Ferreira

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 alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a…

— Bob Beckel

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to…

— Rick Santorum

Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college.…

— Arne Duncan

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson