Quotes About Opportunity

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful. That's just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.