Educational Divide Quotes

Public education is the great equalizer of America.

Our schools are more segregated today than they have ever been since 1968. The schools that I visit hardly have any white students…. Schools that had desegregated, are now resegregating.

Only 28 percent of American adults have a college degree, but most of us in this group find ourselves in workplaces in social milieus where almost everybody has been to college. A social chasm is opening up between those in educated society and those in non-educated society, and you are beginning to see vast behavioral differences between the two groups.

The people with high school degrees and the people who have college degrees are living in two different Americas.

I know that there is an objection to the association of colored children with white children in the same schools. This prejudice exists in my own State. It would be impossible to carry a proposition to educate the few colored children that now live in that State in the same school houses with white children.

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

The ILC will go forward, but the U.S. will fall behind.

If money doesn’t make any difference, how come the rich spend so much on their schools?

It cannot be Pakistan of Quaid and Iqbal where children of the elite study in prestigious educational institutions while those of resourceless segments deprived of education due to difficulties.

The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.