Dannel Malloy Quotes

Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.

In a large country like the United States or India, families differ significantly on their own education values, and I don't believe it is necessary to put everyone through the same curricula and assessments.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

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.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

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

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.

I feel that there is a decision people make to either engage in a legitimately ridiculous process to get your kid into school, or choose not to engage in that so much, and end up finding a nice local school that fits.

That there be equal educational opportunities for all and in all the States, and that public school expenditure be the same for Negro and white child.

Developing countries need to commit additional resources and have the political will to improve education.

To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher is disheartening and should be a call to action for policymakers and educators.