Clare Balding Quotes

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

Inequality is on the rise.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

We tax the people in Watts to send the children of Beverly Hills to college.

The sheltering of upper income children in private schools not only accelerates the deterioration of public education, it hides its consequences from precisely those people who could do something about it.

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

Savage Inequalities

Evils of the gravest kind are likely to result from the so-called public schools.

I know what the teachers got. I know what the politicians got. But I don’t know what the kids got/