In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace in marriage in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting rebellious time.

Furthermore we believe that health care reform again I said at the beginning of my remarks that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology and the third first among equals I may say is health care health insurance reform.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter even where geniuses are equal.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Until we get equality in education we won't have an equal society.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics because discrimination poverty and ignorance restrict growth while investments in education infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Education then beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men the balance-wheel of the social machinery.