Educational Quotes - page 11

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world. (Jim Jeffords)
Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. View quote
Joe Baca
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. View quote
Joe Baca
Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is. View quote
John Engler
Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios. View quote
John H. Sununu
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops. View quote
John Katzman
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model. View quote
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They call D.C. 'Chocolate City' but just because we're all chocolate doesn't mean we're all the same. In D.C., everyone co-exists harmoniously but the lines are still drawn. And people don't really step over those lines. View quote
Laz Alonso
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here. View quote
Malcolm Wallop
Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study. (Bill Nunn)
But, neither of these educational scenarios worked for us, so when we started a family, we wanted a different school for our children. And the other founders felt the same way. View quote
Daniel Greenberg
Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school. View quote
Daniel Greenberg
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles. View quote
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. View quote
Juan Antonio Samaranch
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. View quote
Mary J. Blige
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs. View quote
Matthew Lesko
Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there. View quote
Melanie Fiona
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access. View quote
Montel Williams
It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think. View quote
Noreena Hertz
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn. (Naveen Jain)
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. View quote
Rick Boucher
Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs. View quote
Rosalind Wiseman
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know. View quote
Roy Romer
One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult. View quote
Roy Romer