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.”
“I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.”
-- George J. Mitchell
“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”
-- Sidney Blumenthal
“In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.”
-- Scott Walker
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
-- Ernest Dimnet
“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
-- Carter G. Woodson