Rodney Hood Quotes

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

I've always loved being a student.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

I gain a lot of confidence through study.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.