Dorothy Bush Koch Quotes

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class 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.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

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.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

Just and equal society could be made by drastically improving the condition of India's public schools.

I don't think a good education should be confined to a privileged few.

I believe you have a birthright to a good education.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

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

I'm very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.