Wendy Kopp Country Quotations

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.