Julian Castro Quotes

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

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.

In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program is a world class education.

I’m running for Governor so that all our children can go to kindergarten.

There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic primary education.

The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.

In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

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