Learning Disparities Quotes

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Far too many bright, motivated kids are being badly served by their educational experiences - ones at elite, wealthy schools as well as underfunded ones.

There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education.

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

We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

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.

I am not joking when I state that I remained uneducated because I could not afford education.

Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.

Academically, I think things kicked off pretty late for me. I was kind of one of those kids who was in half honors, half regular. I was like a history/science kid, which was always weird. Around tenth grade or eleventh grade, everything started coming together.

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

Education from six-year-old to 14 is compulsory in Nigeria, but the simple fact is that a lack of resources, coupled with peoples' inability to afford books and uniforms mean the reality for millions of Nigerian children is a life without education.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

The U. S. is suffering greatly by the defects of the educational system .... we are producing an underclass.

Too many people believe that the education deficit is someone else's problem.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

The education system of Hong Kong has often been slammed for marginalising a lot of people.

It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.