Lucio Tan Quotes

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

We still have two public school systems in the United States: One for the haves and one for the have-nots.

The public education system works for children of families like mine but it does not work for the children of families who I represent …

Some people say that we will never fix education in America until we fix poverty. I think that they have it exactly wrong. We will never fix poverty until we fix education.

The only real growth industry in the Middle East has been population.

The children of those people [long term unemployed] have less education, earn less, have higher unemployment. The problems are visited upon the children

I could do a thousand documentaries on poverty and poor people that would be watched by a handful of the convinced, but I was never really going to have an influence on my times -- (as I might if I develop Sesame Street).

How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

We have a locale-based education system; we have increasing economic segregation. We clearly need a larger federal program to try to help disadvantaged districts.

People say, 'In Washington, things can't get done.' We at the state level have to get it done. We don't have filibusters and kicking the can down the road - we don't have that luxury. We've gotta act, and we've got to keep our citizens safe. We've got to grow our economies and provide education and a transportation system that's efficient.

There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Education is popular but very low standard. No wonder the Philippine economy is bankrupt.

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

Michael Gove was one of the worst things to ever happen to the education system in this country. David Cameron is the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had.