Quotes of: Educational-opportunities Keyword

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Michael N. Castle

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

Bobby Scott

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Ed Markey

We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

Gordon B. Hinckley

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Bobby Scott

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from health...

Jane Fonda

That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or in its management. To the great mass of the people it comes as their first and only educational opportunity.

A Library Primer

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

David Elliott

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Ernie Fletcher

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to s...

Tyler Cowen

Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel problem in the world of education. In too many educational settings, teachers simply 'inform' or 'instruct' learners, rat...

Mitchel Resnick

To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a dipl...

Wendy Priesnitz

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

Greg Mortenson

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

Gwen Moore

Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity nee...

David Orr

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.

LeVar Burton

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Dan Quayle

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Ezra Taft Benson