“This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.” KnowsDoeProblemAmericaSkillsPrioritiesScales Author:Tavis Smiley
“Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.” IfsAmericaUsedStepsSpecialSkillsMembersWeaponsCongressIraqDialogueExpertsRight DirectionInspectionSteps In The Right Direction Author:Dennis Kucinich
“At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.” Has BeensCountryEarthAmericaFilmEffortSkillsAreasInstitutionsPatientPhotographerSavedLandscapePreservesTimelessFortitudeMonumentVisionariesForesightEnvironmentalistNature BeautyRenownedScenicAmerican Landscape Author:Ansel Adams
“I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.” MenLongAmericaEnergyPoorAdventureSkillsDrawsDestructiveFundVietnamTubesRehabilitationMilitarismDemonicBreaking Silence Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.” MenYearsTwoHomeLastsAmericaPastUsedFatherParentTermGenerationsSkillsAuthorityHundredDefinedPrimariesMaking MoneyMasculinityInvolvementOver The PastFathering Author:Frank Pittman
“Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.” MayChildrenImportantAmericaOpportunityPoorRolesEconomicChildhoodOughtNeededSkillsFunctionRecognitionSomedayRealisticReadinessMore To LifePoor Children Author:Jonathan Kozol
“We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs.” PeopleNeedsJobsAmericaEconomyCenturyAmountHigherSkillsLimitsAccessBudgetsRegulation21st CenturyObamacareHigher Education Author:Marco Rubio
“You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsGivingGovernmentJobsAmericaEnergyGrowsCan DoEconomyGrowingPolicySucceedSkillsTaxesClintonRateReformCodeBest ThingsRegulationReignEnergy Policy Author:Scott Walker
“No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.” PeopleIfsTwoAmericaLanguageDoubtSubjectsSkillsSixErrorsFollowingSentencesBeerNo DoubtTragicAgreementDeclineHighwaysTruckAlaskaVerbsSpellingSpongesGallonsSpillingLanguage Skills Author:Mike Nichols
“We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and gain the computer skills necessary to allow them to compete in the global marketplace. If we can get that through the public schools, fine. If we can't, I'm all for parental choice in education to allow that parent to take his/her/their child to a school that is safe and teaches them, even if it is a faith-based school!” IfsNeedsWritingChildrenSchoolAmericaChoicesParentTeachFineSkillsSafeComputerGainsPublic SchoolMarketplaceParentalArithmeticFaith Based Author:J. C. Watts
“Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.” ChildrenImportantAmericaOpportunityAbilitySkillsEducationalComponentsLatinoFuture SuccessHead Start Author:Joe Baca
“I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.” WritingWellsAmericaSkillsSurvivalFolksI RealizedMillenniumSurvival Skills Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college graduates. We now rank ninth. And at an age where knowledge, skills, are the determinant of how successful we're going to be, unless we reverse that we're going to keep slipping behind economically to a lot of other countries.” CountryAgeAmericaUsedNumbersBehindsSuccessfulCollegeSkillsMathUsed To BeProportionGraduatesOther CountriesReverseSlippingCollege GraduatesMath Education Author:Barack Obama
“Most of the strength and the leadership skills and the decisiveness, the resoluteness that I think America was craving from Donald Trump, from a leader, is the same in public as it is in private.” ThinkingAmericaLeaderTrumpSkillsCravingLeadership SkillsDecisiveness Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” WorldGivingArtAmericaBeliefImaginationModernObjectsSkillsCriticismCriticsMy ImaginationModern WorldBasketsModern ArtPicnicsCraftsmanshipContemporary ArtPicnic Baskets Author:Tom Stoppard
“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.” MindAmericaHateHopeEconomyLearningStudyRichSkillsI HateTablesCreditRapMasteryShallowMidnightGet RichApprenticeshipAmericanismPhrenology Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)