Atishi Quotes

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

Access to a quality education in our country is a civil right for all Americans young and old. But to ensure it for scores of our fellow Americans, we must rethink education.

Regardless of their parent's income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education.

I just cannot understand why we can't have better schools. That private schools are the only option for the kind of high-net-worth crowd, I think, is ridiculous. It should be a major initiative. It should be something we're all working on. We have to get our head out of the clouds.

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

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.

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.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

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.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.