Robert Purvis Quotes

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

We're living in a world of piranha economics in regard to education.

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

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

The teachers are being screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system and the government doesn’t seem to care.

Public schooling is welfare for the middle class.

Germany did not acquire its admirable educational system by popular demand … the crowd cannot guide itself, cannot help itself in its blind impotence.

We know that the enemy of upward mobility is not poverty or even other people's success. The enemy of upward mobility is apathy and an educational system that offers choice to the privileged and traps the most vulnerable in unsafe and poor performing schools.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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.

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

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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).

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.