education opportunity Quotes

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

All the youth ..., who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it be set to learn ... until they are able to read English writing well.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

I see with joy the Irish emigrants landing at Boston, at New York, and say to myself, There they go—to school.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

I was just a kid. I had nothing to my name but I was still happy. But I was also given a chance to pursue my dreams, have an education.

Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.

My father decided early on to get me the best education money could buy. He wanted me to have the opportunities that were denied to him.

Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

We have got to make sure that every qualified American in this country who wants to go to college can go to college -- regardless of income.

If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.

All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

I believe young people from working families should have access to debt-free education because I know from my own experience that a high-school degree is not always enough, and a higher education can change a life.

Let's bear down on what we can do together: keeping Tennessee a state with a strong financial condition, helping Tennessee be the number one location in the Southeast for higher-quality jobs. And making certain that all Tennesseans, regardless of their circumstances, have an opportunity for higher-quality education.

My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.