Spencer Paysinger Quotes

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

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.

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

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.

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the ‘high school movement’ made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education

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

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

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 went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.

Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine pair of lungs, was master of ceremonies at East Ham working men's club in east London. I felt so proud when I saw him in his white gloves calling out the names of the dances.

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

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 went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.