Julian Castro Quotes

Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

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.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

Fewer than 13 percent of high school students will continue to study math and science in college—usually the most well-prepared and persistent students who often come from families where encouragement and enrichment is fundamental

Twenty years ago we had the highest percentage of college graduates in the world. Today we are number 11.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place.

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

My wife and I believe that there's nothing we do together as a community that's more important than education.

I'm a big fan of teachers.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I'm a proud product of the Massachusetts public schools.

Since the LeBron James Family Foundation shifted its focus on education, it's been important to us to document the innovative work we're doing.

Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

Because of engineering, I have been able to experience things I never thought I would be able to do as an undergraduate.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

There was no question that I was going to school.

I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.

When I was in high school at the age of 17 - I graduated from high school in Decatur, Georgia, as valedictorian of my high school - I was very proud of myself.

I'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation. Only 1.67 percent of these athletes go on to the NFL. An education provides you an opportunity for a career. A lot of people just don't get that. To say they aren't getting anything is misinformed.