Charles Best Quotes

If we can show the world that there are students in all sorts of communities who don't have the material they need for a great education, that will be the first major step to doing something about it.

An act to provide for the education of the poor, gratis

Free education for all - whilst it is a desirable notion, in South Africa it will simply not be affordable.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.

I saw first-hand that all schools are not created equal, and the students shouldn't have to go without all of the materials that they need for a great education.

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

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.

Elites don't care not one whit about school children. If they truly cared, what they would do is protect them.

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people, they don't have the support they need, they're lost. Schools are supposed to be the thing that levels the playing field.

Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.

It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

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

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

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.

Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society.

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.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

Too many people believe that the education deficit is someone else's problem.