Winnie Holzman Quotes

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

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.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Education … is the great equalizer of all the other conditions of men.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.

The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them.

Like my father, I used to believe that hard work and mastery of a standardized exam was the fairest way for students like me to compete with those who had far more resources.

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

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I want to help establish opportunities for at-risk kids to have the same opportunities in and outside of the classroom as everyone else.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

It is actually getting much harder for someone from an ordinary background to break through the ranks. In the period from 1964 to 1997, every single Prime Minister - from Harold Wilson to John Major - was the product of a state school.

I don't believe in dynasties; I don't believe in coronations. That is not how it works in this country.