Sentence examples for poverty of expectation from inspiring English sources

But it's that very poverty of expectation, Birbalsingh argues, which consigns them to failure.

It concluded that poverty of  expectation was, indeed, a greater problem than material poverty in shackling the performance of disadvantaged pupils.

In a speech coinciding with the launch of the report, he will attack the "poverty of expectation" in England which, he says, remains a fundamental weakness in the education system and prevents it from moving up international league tables.

The 67-year-old insists that everything he says and does is with the aim of rescuing children from what he described in last week's Ofsted annual report as a "poverty of expectation" in some schools that condemns unlucky children to unlucky lives.

"Poverty of expectation bears harder on educational achievement than material poverty, hard though that can be.

The education of children across the Yorkshire and Humber region is dogged by "poverty of expectation and poverty of aspiration", an expert has said.

"The poverty of expectations — the failure of imagination — I found this just so interesting," Rumsfeld said.

Today, the biggest single impediment to improvement is this government's poverty of expectations.

He said his aim was to tackle the poverty of expectations, especially in some predominantly white working-class schools.

In the foreword to Roberta Wohlstetter's classic 1962 study, "Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision," the national-security expert Thomas Schelling wrote that America's ability to be surprised by the actions of its enemies is the result of a "poverty of expectations".

The bad, despite the improvements of the surge, still outweighs the good; even a 13-year-old girl blowing herself up in Baquba on November 10 barely made the news, such is the poverty of expectations.