Shiv Nadar Quotes

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

We don't want to tell young girls and boys that the odds are stacked against them from the start. Instead, we could tell them that with passion, conviction, and determination we can build a better future. This future is possible by redesigning our economy to truly reward hard work rather than wealth.

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

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.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

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.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society.

All children should have equal opportunities.

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

Education ... is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.

I want to help establish opportunities for at-risk kids to have the same opportunities in and outside of the classroom as everyone else.