education Quotes

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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

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

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

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.

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.