Jack Kingston: “It is interesting because some of our colleagues right now are really pushing a Federal takeover of local school…”

“It is interesting because some of our colleagues right now are really pushing a Federal takeover of local school construction. They want the Federal Government to go in and build school systems. Now, as the gentleman knows, bricks and mortar has always been the domain of local school boards. And school boards in local communities that have been responsible and have kept up with it, do not have the problem. But what is also interesting about this debate, this urge to go out and spend the money that some of our liberal colleagues have, is that when the gentleman and I talk about education, when the gentleman and I talk about the strengths of education, when the gentleman and I reflect back on our own educational history, we do not talk about, hey, I went to this beautiful school; it was three stories tall, and the bricks were so wonderful and the glass windowpanes were so special and the light sockets were just out of this world. We do not talk about that. We talk about, hey, I had Miss Jones, I had Miss Reynolds, and I had Miss Musey, and I had Miss Smith, and they were great teachers and they made a difference in my life. And not one of them would have been any different in a different building.”