Muhammed Abdelmoteleb Quotes

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

Schools should be held accountable for results.

And I say to you C students, you too can become President of the United States.

Education is the civil rights issue of our era.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?