Educational Equity Quotes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Of all our institutions public education is the most important. Everything depends on it, the present and the future.

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

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

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

In Congress, I will fight for an education system that bridges the opportunity gap in order to help close the achievement gap, and prioritize models that sustain and enrich whole people and communities.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

Education should be a fundamental human right.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.