Albert Shanker Quotes

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

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

I don't believe in private education.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).

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.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.

Education is not a luxury in colonial areas, but it is as much a necessity as in free countries. It is an amenity to which every citizen has a right. It is a social service which should be the first charge on the finances of a country…

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn’t be limited to the wealthiest few.

I do believe that education should become as close to free as possible.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.

I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.