Kesha Rogers Quotes

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of lack of potential.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.

There's no future in being poor.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

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

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

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.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

A great education is a passport to a new life