Bill Gates Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Dream, Country

• Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

  Bill Gates

  Teaching, Skills, Bored

• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

• Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Children, School

• Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Support, Needs

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2012

• Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

  Bill Gates

  Business, School, College

• Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, School

• Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

  Bill Gates

  School, Technology, Years

• There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, Government

• Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Technology, Special

• In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

  Bill Gates

  School, Kids, Different

• Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

  Bill Gates

  School, High School, Degrees

• Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Students, Curious

• America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

  Bill Gates

  School, Mean, America

• We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

  Bill Gates

  Math, Years, Two

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