Julian Castro Quotes

I don't believe in private education.

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

In Latin America, no country is prouder of its legally obligatory admission-free school system than Argentina. Yet only one Argentinian of five thousand born into the lower half of the population gets as far as the university.

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

We once had a society stratified by bloodlines, in which the Protestant Establishment was in one class, immigrants were in another and African-Americans were in another. Now we live in a society stratified by education. In many ways this system is more fair, but as the information economy matures, we are learning it comes with its own brutal barriers to opportunity and ascent.

Because of the British Welfare State …, I was never hungry…. The schools I attended were free and actually acted as ladders of mobility for those randomly given the skills in the genetic lottery of life to climb them.

I'm very lucky I went to a nice school and I live in a very lovely part of London.

There are lots of great educationalists out there who really care about social mobility.

A girl born in Drumchapel in Glasgow has just as much right to good health and the opportunities provided by a good education as a Surrey stockbroker's son.

Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

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?'

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.