Peter Hitchens Quotes

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

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

If there's one thing I do, I will smash every fucking grammar school in the country.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

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.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

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

Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.

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.

Just as the traditional taxi system revolted against ride sharing, so too does the education establishment feel threatened by the rise of school choice.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.

I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.

I want kids to be able to escape failing schools that trap them. And it's an unequal trapping of children. The most affluent find a way to escape. They move to a great suburban district or send their kid to a private school. The people who are trapped in the worst schools that have been terrible often for half a century? Those are the poorest kids.

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.