Emma Watson Quotes

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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 believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

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?'

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

… public education was first provided for boys only; but light soon broke in, and girls were allowed to attend the public schools two hours a day.

The knowledge gap on civics remains wide between students who attend inner-city schools and their peers in middle-class schools

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

I've been building classrooms for children. Computer labs for kids. It's such a huge problem and so many children just aren't given a chance in life.

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.

I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.

Everything's a battle.

If we can show the world that there are students in all sorts of communities who don't have the material they need for a great education, that will be the first major step to doing something about it.

My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

I'm not a typical public school boy.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.