Barry Barish Quotes

In just my interaction, I go to factories, and I talk to our employees. And in Canada, they have had a least a year or two more education. It's like, almost, I never run into anybody who hasn't finished high school. And in the United States, you have a lot who dropped out of 11th grade or whatever.

I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

America must always lead on the world stage.

And being in the EU has given Britain a stronger voice in the world. Britain leads in Europe, from trade to climate change, from good governance to debt relief for the poorest nations, and in turn Europe helps to lead the world.

Opportunities for young girls, like young boys, to go into academies from a young age does happen now in England, but it doesn't happen globally.

Everybody in my family is very well educated. I'm probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.