Andrew Neil Quotes

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

If there's one thing I do, I will smash every fucking grammar school in the country.

In Latin America, no country is prouder of its legally obligatory admission-free school system than Argentina. Yet only one Argentinian of five thousand born into the lower half of the population gets as far as the university.

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

I don't believe in private education.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I'm not a typical public school boy.

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.