Quotes About Opportunity

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

The CHOICE Act provides students with an opportunity, rather than a one-size-fits-all solution, by giving parents a choice in what educational opportunities and programs will best prepare their student for a life and career after K-12 schooling.

We owe it to our students to provide the best, high quality public education in Missouri.

I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.

Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Students from disadvantaged backgrounds will have the most debt, and then, being less likely than their affluent peers to go straight into high paying jobs, they will spend most of their working lives trying but failing to pay off that debt.

Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career or start college and to dramatically increase the number of students that graduate from college.

Like my father, I used to believe that hard work and mastery of a standardized exam was the fairest way for students like me to compete with those who had far more resources.

The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.