When I went to Harvard Law School, my first year, I didn't want people to know I started my education in a colored school. I didn't want them to know I was the great-grandson of enslaved people. I thought it might diminish me.
Copy QuoteThe function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Copy Quote View & ShareEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Copy Quote View & ShareGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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