Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.

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

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

I don't think a good education should be confined to a privileged few.

Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

There's absolutely no reason why at the level of basic schooling that there should be any inequity whatsoever. And [that's] the first direction to go, [but] that need not prevent you from doing all the other equalities that you want.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

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.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Segregation has no place in the education system.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.

Equality in education is my number one battle.

I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

I wish it were true that every child had access to an education that helped them reach their full potential.

Above all, I believe every child, no matter their ZIP code or their parents' jobs, deserves access to a quality education.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.