Chains Quote by Alfie Kohn

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of…

— Jonathan Kozol

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions…

— Ted Sizer

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have…

— Keke Palmer

The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We can’t possibly…

— Michelle Rhee

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the…

— Margaret Geller

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world,…

— Malala Yousafzai

We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.

— Trudie Styler

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real…

— Alice Waters

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

— Anna Deavere Smith