Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

The abolition of the separate school system in the south raises serious practical problems.... We face the abolition of the public school system. Boldness is essential but wisdom is indispensable.

Attacking school segregation requires all hands on deck. We in the charter sector must move beyond our traditional comfort zone, serving disadvantaged students, and meet the demands of parents who have other high quality options.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

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.

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 the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Title I dollars are well spent. They are really making a difference in the education of students.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

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.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

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.

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

The United States Office of Education has likewise been guilty of spreading racial equality propaganda. In a report to the press, Dr. John W. Studebaker, head of the Office of Education, and his Negro assistant, Dr. Ambrose Caliver, who is racial adviser in the office of Education, called upon the colleges and universities of the South to open their doors to Negro students

Education is the civil rights issue of our era.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.