Quotes About Education

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

In America, many marginally competent or flatly incompetent whites are hired every day -some because their white skin suits the conscious or unconscious racial preference of their employers. The white children of alumni are often grandfathered into elite universities in what can only be seen as a residual benefit of historic white privilege.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.

Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I am a family man who has children, who is a good person, who cares about women's rights and my kids' rights and education, and I'm not a leftist elitist. I live a very normal life.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

If you care about social and racial justice, innovation, and humanity, become a teacher. There are amazing kids who have unlimited potential and ideas who need someone who cares about them and their learning.