Country Quote by Carl Hart

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered…

— Naomie Harris

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of…

— J. M. Coetzee

I have seen schools across the country working long and hard to embed a commitment to the unlimited development of every student into their…

— Carol S. Dweck

“The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

“Most schools in most countries place a higher priority on teaching students to follow instructions and rules (becoming A students) than on helping students…

— Mitchel Resnick

We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the…

— Tamzin Merchant

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

— Winston Churchill

When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come…

— Rafe Esquith

As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand…

— Wendy Kopp

“Every one of us in Teach for America was working so hard and creating results in our classrooms, but if our kids didn’t go…

— Paul Tough

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

— Y. C. James Yen

That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince…

— Henry Giroux