It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.
I wish I had more time to visit schools.
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
It's all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks and higher tuition at Rhode Island's colleges. But we should make an active choice.
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.
Good schools should be left alone.