Dan Bonner Quotes on Education (3 Quotes)

That involves making sure that you recruit and retain and pay properly the best teachers. I think that means making sure that you devote a very high percentage of your limited resources to actual teacher-to-pupil instruction - rather than on administration and various support services. I think that means you create through the proper administration of discipline an atmosphere that is most conducive to learning.

I would like to offer whatever I have to offer as a help. I've spent most of my time in Staunton working with programs for kids. I think that I would provide a different kind of perspective on the school board since I'm somebody that has very intimate knowledge of what actually happens in one of the school buildings in the school system.

The big issue facing any school is very simple. It boils down to one word - excellence.