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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”