Amartya Sen Quotes

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

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.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

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.

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

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.

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

God's law is clear: standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

Keep the Federal skunk out of our schools.

The right to an education is still not present in our Constitution.

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

If my child were in a school where he was not learning, I would not wait for a gathering of social scientists to tell me whether it was okay for me to send him to another school.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

If politicians in a state block education choice, it means those politicians do not support equal opportunity for all kids.

I strongly believe that education is a human right and that it's extremely valuable, no matter where you live in the world.