Quotes: Schools

Our party’s committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that’s the only way most of us got through.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can’t be controlled.