Wendy Kopp Quotes

The right to an education is still not present in our Constitution.

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

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.

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

There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.

I do not want any policy to be formulated that impedes the spread of education in any fashion.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

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

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

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!

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

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

There shall be a system of common schools ... to be open without charge to all classes of persons

No country can ever flourish or make its mark as a nation, as long as the principle of (educational) compulsion is absent

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.

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.

Canada truly understands that girls and women who have access to a safe and high-quality education is a priority.

We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.