John Edwards Quotes

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

Colleges and universities divide families by income, providing access to the best schools for those with accumulated wealth. Low- or moderate-income families are relegated to the less prestigious schools where the resources for advancement are fewer than those provided at better financed schools.

We still have two separate public school systems in this country. It’s not [any longer] based on race; it’s based on economics, but that’s related to race.

The public education system works for children of families like mine but it does not work for the children of families who I represent …

Tomorrow everybody--or practically everybody--will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

The U. S. is suffering greatly by the defects of the educational system .... we are producing an underclass.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

What the North is sending down for our schools is not money but dynamite. This education is ruining our negroes. They’re demanding equality.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

If the power exists in the present case it cannot be restricted to this alone. The Committee may distribute all the children into classes, according to mere discretion. They may establish a separate school for Irish or Germans… They may separate Catholics from Protestants … separate different sects of Protestants … establish a separate school for the rich, that the delicate taste of this favored class may not be offended by the humble garments of the poor … All this, and much more, can be done in the exercise of that high-handed power which makes a discrimination on account of race or color

The sheltering of upper income children in private schools not only accelerates the deterioration of public education, it hides its consequences from precisely those people who could do something about it.