Romola Garai Quotes

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.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

Everybody in my family is very well educated. I'm probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.

I'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out.

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

Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

Only 28 percent of American adults have a college degree, but most of us in this group find ourselves in workplaces in social milieus where almost everybody has been to college. A social chasm is opening up between those in educated society and those in non-educated society, and you are beginning to see vast behavioral differences between the two groups.

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.

Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.

I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.