Education Quote by Jesmyn Ward

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses…

— Carter G. Woodson

“...if a parent does not know how to love and nurture a child while he is young, especially black boys, that child will grow…

— Daniel Whyte III

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

“wherever a school is actually teaching boys and girls to do something that the community wants, it is seldom that that school fails to…

— Booker T. Washington

“I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America,…

— Malcolm X

“When the norms associated with race take on a static and determining quality, they can be very difficult to undermine. Students who receive a…

— Pedro A. Noguera

“He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.”

— William Saroyan

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

“Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless…

— Carter G. Woodson

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

“I liked the company of most of my colleagues, who were about equally divided among good men who were good teachers, awful men who…

— Robertson Davies