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The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Carter G. Woodson

The mere imparting of information is not education.
Carter G. Woodson

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
William J. Clinton

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Aldo Leopold

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Emma Goldman

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

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