Education Quotes
“Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.”
“State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.”
-- Arne Duncan
“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.”
-- Nancy Astor
“Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.”
-- Carol Bellamy
“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.”
-- Paul Wellstone
“When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.”
-- Arlen Specter
“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”
-- Barack Obama