Quotes On Education Inequality

#1. In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

Milton Friedman

#2. I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Vladimir Kramnik

#3. There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes

Anne McCaffrey

#5. The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Helene D. Gayle

#6. There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality, [and] they're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

Robert J. Gordon

#7. A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated - and turned out to grass.

Pearl S. Buck

#8. Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

Eddie Redmayne

#9. Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace.

Dennis Kucinich

#10. Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

Christine De Pizan

#11. The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.

Ben Bernanke

#12. One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

Coco Chanel

#13. Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and government programs that reduce inequality can make the nation as a whole richer by reducing that waste.

Paul Krugman

#14. And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

Umberto Guidoni

#15. Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

Michael S. Roth

#16. I do want you. More than my next breath.

Katie Reus

#17. America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Nicholas Kristof

#18. In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

Rabih Alameddine

#19. Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.

Kim Clijsters

#20. Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

Donald Miller

#21. I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

Arne Duncan

#22. True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

Felix Schelling

#23. A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring.

Pat Cher

#24. To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows you'll need in the society of the future.

Thomas Frank

#25. Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Robert Reich

#26. The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

Thomas Piketty

#27. I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

Abe Lemons

#28. What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing. What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever "protected" anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?

John Irving

#29. Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'

Timothy Noah