Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children aren't just our future. They're our present.
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.
For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.
We can't afford not to fully fund education.
Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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