"I’m a Christian, and I believe in parents being able to provide children with religious instruction without interference from the state. But I also believe our schools are there to teach worldly knowledge and science. I believe in evolution, and I believe there’s a difference between science and faith. That doesn’t make faith any less important than science. It just means they’re two different things. And I think it’s a mistake to try to cloud the teaching of science with theories that frankly don’t hold up to scientific inquiry."
"We're going to change how that law works so that teachers don't just have to teach to a standardized test, because we want our students learning art, and music, and literature, and foreign languages and all the things that make an education worthwhile."
Barack Obama
"Don't tell us that you will put high-quality teachers in every class room and then leave the support and pay for those teachers behind. Don't label a school as failing one day and then throw your hands up and walk away from it the next."
Barack Obama
"Money does matter in education. But there is no denying that the way many public schools are managed poses at least as big a problem as how well they're funded. Our task is to identify those reforms that have the highest impact on achievement, fund them, and eliminate those programs that don't produce results."
Barack Obama
"I believe that we should set up a system of performance pay for teachers, negotiated with teachers, work with the teachers to figure out the assessments so they feel they are being judged fairly, that it's not at the whim of the principle, that it's not based on a single high stakes standardized test."
Barack Obama
"And I won't just talk about how great teachers are, I will reward them for their greatness by giving them higher salaries and giving them more support."
Barack Obama
"In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a pre-requisite"
Barack Obama
"The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind."
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama is well known for his inspirational speeches. He would be running for re-election in 2012. In December 2008, Time magazine named Obama as its Person of the Year for his historic candidacy and election, which it described as "the steady march of seemingly impossible accomplishments". In 2009, Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". Obama is the fourth U.S. president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the third to become a Nobel laureate while in office. This post contains some of the most famous quotes of Obama on Education.
