Chris Hayes Quotes

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

The most important domestic issue we face is education…and education is so broken.

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.

When people lose faith in a system as they have in the public school system, they no longer want to support it.

I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society.

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

Business has to have a seat at the table. Infrastructure isn't going to be built properly if business doesn't have a seat at the table. A school is not going to happen if businesses don't work with schools about what kind of jobs they really need.

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

I love being an American, and it's a beautiful country, but we are a bunch of whack jobs. We have got so much to learn.

You can't just put a bubble over the Westside of L.A. and pretend like there aren't other problems. The way that we are failing the kids in this city through our education system has a profound effect on everybody in the city, and I'm not prepared just to turn a blind eye to that.

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

When you leave people behind, and those people who are left behind, it's not their fault, it's the leaders of the institutions. There's always going to be an elite. You can have an elite in a communist society. It is the leaders, something went wrong, and the leaders collectively are responsible.

Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.