George Osborne Quotes

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

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

All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.

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

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

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

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Teach for America recruits top recent college grads, young professionals, people we believe are the U.S.'s most promising future leaders, and asks them to commit two years to teach in high-need urban and rural communities.