We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

If bringing up the next generation is important why aren't they the best qualified the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Apartheid education rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society in every family.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.