Education Quotes

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. But as a women you didn’t even think about discrimination.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.

A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

I am an educationist. I’m an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

All one can really leave one’s children is what’s inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.