Access To Education Quotes

• It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, World, Good Education

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

  Lauryn Hill

  Children, Opportunity, World

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• When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

  Jacque Fresco

  Education, Price Tag, Limits

  Jacque Fresco (2007). “Designing the Future”, p.71, Osmora Inc.

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• And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Learning, School, Goal

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". The speech to the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

  Adam Braun

  Children, Needs, Enabling

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• What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  Benjamin Bloom

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1981). “All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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• The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Keys, Play

  "Access to Quality Education" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Girl, Teacher, Children

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• In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

  Arne Duncan

  America, Quality, Zips

  FaceBook post by Secretary Arne Duncan from Nov 16, 2012

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• Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

  Noam Chomsky

  Change, Education, Time

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• Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

  Bell Hooks

  What Matters, Empowering, Desire

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.74, Routledge

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• The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

  James Heckman

  Education, Children, Opportunity

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• So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, School, Kids

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• My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

  Erica Jong

  Children, Men, News

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

  Dave Obey

  Dollars, Conviction, Bank Accounts

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

  Dale Spender

  Education, War, Women

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• Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Kids, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 05, 2015

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• At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

  Shakira

  Years, Pace, Currents

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Dance, Art, Believe

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• Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Thinking

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• More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?

  Matthew Kelly

  Education, Technology, Thinking

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• More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

  Michelle Alexander

  Space, Mainstream Society, Racism

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.58, The New Press

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