Education Quotes

You've got to find them and you've got to drag them in, then you've got to sell them on education. - Carey Jenkins

You've got a whole generation of boys ... not caring about getting an education. That has repercussions not just for individual kids but for us as a society. - Kathy Stevens

Youth was his main drive. He wanted to use the money toward children to advance education. - Ronald Meeks

Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles... I mean, they've got their own struggles, now -- lack of education, lack of opportunity, lack of respect. But in the civil rights movement, people were willing to die, get bitten by dogs, hosed. That was the difference. Our challenge is: How should the civil rights movement look in the 21st century? - Lennox Yearwood

You'd don't get appointed head of the State Board of Education as an 'outsider' to the system. He's been at the Republican trough for a very, very long time. - Roger Germann

You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is. - Mike Beebe

You start with the educational purpose, but with any technology, teens will find other uses for it than the main one. Almost all of them do things that we never get around to. Even the graphing calculators for math come with their own games, and the kids will discover them. - Laura Behrens