Peter Maurer Quotes

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.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

I didn't go to school a lot.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

We are in the middle of an education recession.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.

The most that hurts is I couldn't see my kids growing up. They grow and go. Most of the time, I'm in training camps. I couldn't see that happening. This hurts me.

It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Or better to say, in my face. Grammar of my life: as a rule of thumb, wherever there appears a plural, correct for singular. Should I ever let slip a royal We, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in reducing fertility is girls' education.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.