Irina Bokova Quotes

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.

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.

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

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.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

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

Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

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

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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.

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

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

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

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.

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

No country can ever flourish or make its mark as a nation, as long as the principle of (educational) compulsion is absent

… adult education should be made available … so that our less privileged groups may be able to avail themselves of new openings which require more education than they possess.

What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.