Education Gap Quotes

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

I'm not one of those acts where it's, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, 'It's educational tonight. Let's all go out there and spend Dad's money.'

In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

New York City has an integration problem.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

We used to be the country with the highest percentage of college graduates. We are no more and the gap is widening.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

Fifty percent of our high schools do not even offer calculus—no one in those schools can take calculus.

I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India.

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

It is always those with little learning that overthrow those with much learning.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

I can say that when you model, when you get to a certain age, that's it for you. I remember there was a time where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life?' I am a high school dropout who's only modeled. So there was desperation with that.

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.