Quotes About School Dropouts

#1. Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Malcolm X

#2. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Peter S. Jennison

#3. I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

Daniel Woodrell

#4. Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.

Jared Bernstein

#5. In January 2004, the number of unemployed American college graduates actually exceeded the number of unemployed high school dropouts.

Ken Robinson

#6. Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

Kamala Harris

#7. it funny how in school, the best grade is an A, but in the breast department, you never want an A? You want the breasts that get bad grades? The Breast School dropouts? The ones that get Ds and Fs? Hilarious.

Devon Hartford

#8. Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

Nolan Bushnell

#9. High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#10. The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

Fred Thompson

#11. Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Benjamin Barber

#12. In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

Milton Friedman