Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes

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

I don't believe in private education.

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

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

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

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

I don't think a good education should be confined to a privileged few.

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

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.

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

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.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

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.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in these unsafe and failing schools are too important, and I'm willing to take the abuse in order to help them.

All pupils of school age have the right to moral or religious education at the community’s expense.

The point we must aim at is to obtain admittance for our children to the nearest and the best schoolhouse.

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

That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.

Children, although for the most part under the unwritten discipline of home, are not to be regarded as outside the control of public regulation. For the education of children is a matter of more than private interest; it concerns the State, which indeed regards the right training of the young as, in certain aspects, within its proper sphere. I would wish to see this responsibility extended.

Education is not a luxury in colonial areas, but it is as much a necessity as in free countries. It is an amenity to which every citizen has a right. It is a social service which should be the first charge on the finances of a country…