"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded"
- Sidney Blumenthal
About this Quote
This quote by Sidney Blumenthal is referring to the former President George W. Bush's lack of commitment to his own education policy. The Leave No Child Behind Act was one of the few achievements of the Bush administration, yet it was left unfunded. This absence of financing implied that the policy was not able to be appropriately implemented, and the goals of the policy were not fulfilled. This quote is slamming the Bush administration for not following through on their own policy, and for not offering the needed resources to ensure its success. It is a pointer that even when a policy is created, it should be correctly funded and supported in order to be effective.
"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"
