education Quotes

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.