Quotes About Opportunity

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

People will urge you to go to school. They'll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80's. You are here to hustle.

Getting your education is an advantage you have.

The value of a good education has never left me.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

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!

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

If jobs are important, education is important.

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.