What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win read more

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to read more

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the read more

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am read more

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.