Norman Cousins Quotes

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right.

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

The right to an education is still not present in our Constitution.

I do not feel that, in these important years, girls should be chosen for college purely on the basis of whether they can afford to pay for this opportunity. They should be there because of the potential value which they will bring to the Nation. If they have this added training, the Nation should be willing to put something toward their development.

We want to make access to a world-class education like clean drinking water or electricity.

I strongly believe that education is a human right and that it's extremely valuable, no matter where you live in the world.

Education should be a fundamental human right.

Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

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.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.