Education Disadvantage Quotes

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

… an illiterate with an unbalanced mind.

As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade education from the south.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

I was never good at school and was always fighting in the streets.

By the "mud-sill" theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.