Education Quotes
“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.”
-- Jonathan Kozol
“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.”
-- Liberty Hyde Bailey
“Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.”
-- Wynton Marsalis
“I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.”
-- Clay Aiken