John Sergeant Wise Quotes

Colleges and universities divide families by income, providing access to the best schools for those with accumulated wealth. Low- or moderate-income families are relegated to the less prestigious schools where the resources for advancement are fewer than those provided at better financed schools.

I don't believe in private education.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.

The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the ones that are simply 'fine.'

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

The sheltering of upper income children in private schools not only accelerates the deterioration of public education, it hides its consequences from precisely those people who could do something about it.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

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.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

There seems to be an idea abroad in this land as well as in others, that a certain class of people are for the purpose of producing servants for another class of people, and that this servant-producing class has no right to give their children an education that is calculated to elevate them above the position of their parents. We are not in sympathy with this idea.

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

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

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

I do not like the rich.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

As someone who attended six different public schools across America, went to Harvard, and subsequently became a tutor in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, I've witnessed firsthand the differences in learning styles between public school educations and private.

People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.