Bruce Babbitt Quotes

Schools should be open all day, all year.

The prisons are open all day long. I think the schools should be too.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

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.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

Most teachers have no say in their schools' decisions about hiring, promotions, firing, budgets, pay levels, curriculum or scheduling. This lack of control is a big reason they leave the profession.

There will always be prayer in school as long as there are math tests.

Every monastery and every abbey shall have its school in which boys may be taught…. No charges may be assessed against the pupils. .

The fundamentalists are taking over school boards and making curriculum choices for our young people.

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.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.

The United States Office of Education has likewise been guilty of spreading racial equality propaganda. In a report to the press, Dr. John W. Studebaker, head of the Office of Education, and his Negro assistant, Dr. Ambrose Caliver, who is racial adviser in the office of Education, called upon the colleges and universities of the South to open their doors to Negro students

Federal, state and municipal policies have isolated many children, especially in urban districts, into schools that are segregated by race, class and income.

I wish that every Chinese citizen can live a life of satisfaction, every peasant child can go to school and every person reaching a working age can have a job. I wish people wouldn't have to worry about medical care if they are sick, particularly those in rural areas. I believe that this is the dream of every Chinese person.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

State schools will be thrown open to Jews, Agnostics, Roman Catholics and Atheists.

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".

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

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.

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.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.