Basic Education Quotes

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

The secret of success lies in investing into education, as the wealthy countries do. This means not in technology and machines first. That would come later, with educated and qualified individuals. Considering that we are lagging behind reforms, the only way to make up for such gap is to have a non-linear development by making leaps, all of which would be have an education as a base. Education, training, knowledge, are the major driving forces of progress.

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and gain the computer skills necessary to allow them to compete in the global marketplace. If we can get that through the public schools, fine. If we can't, I'm all for parental choice in education to allow that parent to take his/her/their child to a school that is safe and teaches them, even if it is a faith-based school!

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

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.

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

Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.

America is the land of equal opportunity. The reality is that we are not delivering on that promise.

I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

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

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

It was a shock to visit a Job Corps camp and see adults who had been through some years of our public education system stare at a blackboard where a teacher was writing CAT or helping them write their own names. In another room men were learning to tell time.