Peter Fraser Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

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

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

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'

Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?

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

Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

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.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

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.

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

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.

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 in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

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

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!