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School Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
- I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
- I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high…
- It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if…
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- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
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- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood