Angela Rayner Quotes

Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

No child should be deprived the opportunity to excel.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

We need a world class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.

No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receive.

The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them.

Like my father, I used to believe that hard work and mastery of a standardized exam was the fairest way for students like me to compete with those who had far more resources.

Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

There are no immovable barriers to education.

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.