Boston Quote by Mario Cuomo

“carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family’s loss that the remaining children had managed to lift themselves…

— Saroo Brierley

As Minnesotans, we value education and preparing the next generation for success in their careers and their lives.

— Dean Phillips

“We can’t build a nation by keeping the teachers hungry.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious.”

— A.G. Riddle

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

“If asked how one’s business is doing, the customary response is: ‘Could be worse,’ or ‘Just about surviving.’ Anything more upbeat is reckoned insufferable…

— Graeme Macrae Burnet

“He had a Minnesotan’s admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Although failure is a great teacher, we cannot afford the time to learn from our failures. Human societies cannot be subjected to such a…

— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

“What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance, the outcomes…

— Ijeoma Oluo

“in an entire discussion about why poor kids struggled in school, the emphasis rested entirely on public institutions. As a teacher at my old…

— J.D. Vance

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

— Carol Moseley Braun

I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

— Drew Barrymore