Difficult Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

— Amartya Sen

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

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

— Tupac Shakur

In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated.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

“Poverty suppresses growth in regions of the brain that empower children to do well in school, handle the greater threats they face on a…

— Dacher Keltner

I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the…

— Amartya Sen

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff

What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school,…

— Arne Duncan

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

— Jamaal Bowman

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

— Blase J. Cupich

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

— Tony Danza