Charles Best Quotes

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

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.

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.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

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!

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.

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.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

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

When we're able to identify disparities in education, we can better determine whether federal grant programs are effectively reaching our students, allowing us to improve how to distribute and implement these funds across communities.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.

When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn't have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn't afford them.

It cannot be Pakistan of Quaid and Iqbal where children of the elite study in prestigious educational institutions while those of resourceless segments deprived of education due to difficulties.

Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.