Quotes About Educational Opportunity

#1. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity. A

Will Durant

#2. We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gwen Moore

#3. Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

Bobby Scott

#4. The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

Wendy Kopp

#5. The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

Bobby Scott

#6. As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

Wendy Kopp

#7. So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Bobby Scott

#8. For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory jobs of their parents, who, traumatized by two world wars, had responded by creating a safety blanket of conformity.

Pete Townshend

#9. The steel skull of your archnemesis. Now,

Brandon Sanderson

#10. You can read a lot of books
It don't make you smart
Kiss a lot of fools
Don't mean you've got a heart

Lynn Miles

#11. Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Hang, cur, hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!

William Shakespeare

#13. The Universe did not ask for justification before it came into existence.

Fred Van Lente

#14. While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

Bjork

#15. We often live next to monsters unawares.

Christopher Buehlman

#16. It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.

Nelson Mandela

#17. Who is the betrayer/
Who's the killer in the crowd/
The one who creeps in corridors/
And doesn't make a sound.

Florence + The Machine

#18. When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.

William J.H. Boetcker

#19. The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.

Donovan L. Graham

#20. The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy ... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

Amartya Sen

#21. Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

Edward Hirsch

#22. CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

Michael K. Williams

#23. I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

Donald Miller

#24. Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful about where one uses it. For instance, the Internet provides an incredible opportunity. It is a way for us to reach audiences around the world and further our educational mission.

Thomas P. Campbell

#25. It's really seeing student involvement ... as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Adam Fletcher

#26. My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

Saoirse Ronan

#27. All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

John F. Kennedy

#28. Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

Malcolm Wallop

#29. That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life. Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.

Bill Maher