Famous Quotes

"The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

James Baldwin on Education

More quotes about Education

• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

  Nelson Mandela on Education

• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

  Oscar Wilde on Education

More quotes by James Baldwin

• "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone."

• "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

• "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

• "But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."

• "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."