Rana el Kaliouby Quotes

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

Minority and low-income parents are just as capable as wealthy parents of identifying schools that are providing a first class education. Stop infantilizing us and start empowering our families with choice, with freedom, and personal responsibility.

The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them.

Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separate and unequal conditions that still exist in our schools and our communities and rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all.

It is inevitable that we will need digital technology to re-imagine learning beyond schooling. Even if it is only to inspire people to do more things physically.

The drive for growth of education technology will further accelerate. Another key area of major growth is e-Health. The overall outlook for the industry is certainly optimistic.

When I read or study, I don't do it for the degree - if I fail, it doesn't matter, but it just takes me out of this world where you're the centre of attention all the time. You just become a normal bloke when you're setting yourself those kinds of targets.

We hear from parents all the time about how much their kids learn from playing and creating on Roblox.

I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people, they don't have the support they need, they're lost. Schools are supposed to be the thing that levels the playing field.

I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.

We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.

I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.

I believe you have a birthright to a good education.

We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.

I'm just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

If the Tories are serious about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, regardless of their background, then the only thing they need to review is Labour's manifesto.

It cannot be Pakistan of Quaid and Iqbal where children of the elite study in prestigious educational institutions while those of resourceless segments deprived of education due to difficulties.

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.