Quotes About Education

schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) to reeducate them.

For a nickel a month, Lady Jones did what whitepeople thought unnecessary if not illegal: crowded her little parlor with the colored children who had time for and interest in book learning.

If you can't count they can cheat you. If you can't read they can beat you.

Even the educated colored: the long-schooled people, the doctors, the teachers, the paper-writers and businessmen had a hard row to hoe. In addition to having to use their heads to get ahead, they had the weight of the whole race sitting there.

are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself

One taught her the alphabet; another a stitch. All taught her how it felt to wake up at dawn and decide what to do with the day.

Of particular interest were those printed in the nineteenth century when my grandfather spent his few minutes at school.

I loved the geography part. Learning about that made me want to read.

My whole education was to make sure I didn't believe things like that. I dismissed all sorts of things that were indigenous in my family -- superstition and discredited information, and that discredited way of knowing that discredited people always have. But when I began to write, that was the place where I had to go. That's where the information was.

Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

Some of them had to have Bible verses read to them because they could not decipher print themselves, so they had sharpened the skills of the illiterate: perfect memory, photographic minds, keen senses of smell and hearing.

between the schoolhouse and Holy Redeemer

Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done, he said, She doesn't need you anymore.

Canadian Labor Department in 1948 rejected girls and women applying to emigrate to Canada for jobs in domestic service if there was any sign that they had education beyond secondary school.

Today's schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job.

The idea that it was the state's business to know what was good for people—while we accept it uncomplainingly in school curriculums and hospital practices—smacked of eugenics and perhaps euthanasia.

Few—very few—graduates before the mid-'70s sought out a 'business' education;

And she envied Caleb's knowledge. She only had bits and pieces, scraps and rags. He had a whole cloth.

It's how I keep my mind from becoming mush. Learn and think. Think and learn.

But ability yields to deliberate, organized practice. The brain is the most expansive organ we have; it really does change. You learn something and your brain changes.

I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal and not getting quite enough to eat.

become the adviser to presidents and an honored member of New England society. Ohiyesa, or Eastman, went to Beloit College where he learned English and immersed himself in the culture and ways of the white world. Upon graduation he went east. He attended Dartmouth College, then was accepted into medical school at Boston University, which he completed in 1890. He returned to his native Midwest to work among his own people as a physician on the Pine Ridge reservation

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.