Mamata Banerjee Quotes

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

Public schooling is welfare for the middle class.

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

A rising tide lifts all boats but if you can’t afford a boat, the tide goes up your nose.

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

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

The knowledge gap on civics remains wide between students who attend inner-city schools and their peers in middle-class schools

Bilingual education doesn’t work, and it has never worked.

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

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.