Education Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

— Sonia Sotomayor

“You’ve got to get your education! It’s the only way to get ahead in the world.”

— Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

— Sonia Sotomayor

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

— Sonia Sotomayor

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents…

— Sonia Sotomayor

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom.…

— Sonia Sotomayor