Pat Paulsen Quotes

That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.