Angela Rayner Quotes

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.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

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

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

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.

One hundred years ago free schools were little known in the United States. There were excellent schools for the well-to-do and charitable institutions for the instruction of boys and girls without means; but the free public school, open alike to the children of the rich and poor and supported by the State, awaited creation and development. The seed planted soon bore fruit. Free schools were the necessary supplement of free men. The wise and liberal provisions for public instruction by the fathers, second only in effect to their struggle for the independence and creation of the Union, were destined at no distant date to produce the most wonderful results.

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

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.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

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

For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise of improved opportunities for all our children.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

I believe you have a birthright to a good education.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).

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

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.