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America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

The better the teacher, the better the future of America.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.