Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

An act to provide for the education of the poor, gratis

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

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

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

One hundred years ago free schools were little known in the United States. There were excellent schools for the well-to-do and charitable institutions for the instruction of boys and girls without means; but the free public school, open alike to the children of the rich and poor and supported by the State, awaited creation and development. The seed planted soon bore fruit. Free schools were the necessary supplement of free men. The wise and liberal provisions for public instruction by the fathers, second only in effect to their struggle for the independence and creation of the Union, were destined at no distant date to produce the most wonderful results.

I believe, Sir, that it is the right and the duty of the State to provide means of education for the common people. This proposition seems to me to be implied in every definition that has ever yet been given of the functions of a government.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

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

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

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

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

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.

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.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

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.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.