Education Quotes
“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.”
“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