Dorothy Bush Koch Quotes

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

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

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

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.

Education is the civil rights issue of our era.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

I actually support President Obama's initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.

With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.

If politicians in a state block education choice, it means those politicians do not support equal opportunity for all kids.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams, it's going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read - you ought to listen to her.

There are no immovable barriers to education.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

I always coached mostly the have-not schools.