Top 52 Quotes About Equal Education
#1. We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.
Earl Warren
#2. A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
Susan B. Anthony
#3. Free healthcare and free and equal education and peace are about the only things I passionately believe in, and I think if you don't believe in those but you go to church on Sunday then that's hypocris.
Robert Montgomery
#4. I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.
Jonathan Kozol
#5. [Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working power, the same education and, above all, the same economic assets ... each person would [then] have only himself to blame if he did not succeed.
Knut Wicksell
#6. The Figurehead of American Public Education Who Prefers Private Religious Education (!)All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith.
Rod Paige
#7. What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
Joschka Fischer
#8. The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
Ed Markey
#9. So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#10. Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.
Demetri Martin
#11. Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
John F. Kennedy
#12. Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
John Milton
#13. Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing.
Jean Leclercq
#14. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
Earl Warren
#15. That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and wor.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#16. What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
Betty Ford
#17. I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#18. To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
Judith Crist
#19. Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.
Thomas Sowell
#20. Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.
Norton Juster
#22. To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims, this can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.
Ian Buruma
#23. Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#24. Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.
Oliver DeMille
#25. The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
Booker T. Washington
#26. Separate but Not Equal The only places on earth not to provide free public education are communist China, North Vietnam, Sarawak, Singapore, British Honduras - and Prince Edward County, Virginia. - US ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT F. KENNEDY, MARCH 19, 1963, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
Kristen Green
#27. I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Bill Cosby
#28. A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
Nicholas Kristof
#29. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. All of us are not born with equal opportunities. But over a period of time, regardless of our parentage, place of birth, prospects in our communities, or education, the day comes when we have to make the choice to let our past teach us - or beat us.
Zig Ziglar
#31. What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.
Samuel Richardson
#32. Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.
Edward Gibbon
#33. Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.
Kerry Washington
#34. Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.
Shukla Bose
#35. Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
Frances Wright
#36. Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.
Robert Owen
#37. Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#38. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.
Steve Eisman
#39. Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
Everett Dirksen
#40. Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Matthew Simpson
#41. People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
Thomas Jefferson
#42. No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?
Paul Lockhart
#43. our society should do whatever is necessary to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed."74 Education generally is viewed as a "key ingredient in equality of opportunity
Suzanne Mettler
#44. Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.
Max Scheler
#45. There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
Thomas Jefferson
#46. All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.
Aldous Huxley
#47. Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#48. The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson
#49. Cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.
Fanny Kemble
#50. In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.
John F. Kennedy
#51. Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Sonia Sotomayor
#52. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
Ken Robinson
