Quotes of: Education-reform Keyword

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

Gary Locke

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

Grover Norquist

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Henry Louis Gates

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

Hu Jintao

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

Jo Ann Davis

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

Jesse Helms

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

Els Borst

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Edison

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Paton

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

Jim Gerlach

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Lincoln Chafee

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.

Valerie Jarrett

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

Adam Michnik

To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.

The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

Democracy and Education

What a slacker. Just because daddy paid for his college education, he thinks he can avoid dying for his country." -- Willie "Drafted

Drafted

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The Education of Henry Adams