Education Quotes

“On average, American states spend $88,000 to incarcerate a young person, but allot an average of $10,000 to educate them.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“…schools as we know them appear designed at every level to sabotage the supposed goals of education.”
― Ted Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines

“Perhaps the most basic thing that can be said about human memory, after a century of intensive research, is that unless a detail is placed into a structured pattern, it is rapidly forgotten. Detailed material is conserved in memory by the use of simplified ways of representing it.”
― Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education

“Cybersecurity is a new area where equality will exist to allow intelligence to succeed.

Cybersecurity needs women to be successful and without them it will not as the best talent a must.”
― Ian R. McAndrew, PhD

“A man ought to be a source of shame to his father, don’t you think? If I ever have a son, I hope he makes my life hell. How, otherwise, will there ever be any progress?”
― Sarah Waters, The Night Watch

“Of necessity, indoctrination must legitimize itself by dressing itself in the garb of ‘education’ lest we discover that we are being robbed of our ability to think independently by being led to believe that we are thinking independently.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Foolish friend is already an enemy.”
― Rumi

“She [Melba's mother] would tell us the story of the lone black man who was trying to integrate the law school. In the classroom, he was forced to sit confined by a white picket fence erected around his desk and chair.”
― Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

“My passion in life is to teach and educate. If I make money along the way, then that is a wonderful thing too. The important thing is that you are given more opportunities by me sharing my knowledge and experience.”
― Linda Rawson

“I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“We must publish to make the work public.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Once you get people addicted to alcohol in college, you make it almost impossible for them to stop drinking - Milton Friedman. Just kidding. I said it. But inspired by Milton. hehe.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“To assume that the ends of education are best advanced by focusing principally on our own separateness, our own ethnic identity, culture and traditions ironically places us where as subaltern, inferior, or lesser races we had been placed by nineteenth-century racial theory.”
― Edward W. Said

“Inside the academy we should be able to discover and travel among other selves, other identities ... we should regard knowledge as something for which to risk identity and we should think of academic freedom as an invitation to give up on identity in the hope of understanding and perhaps even assuming more than one.”
― Edward W. Said

“Affirm; "It can be done"; find a way to get it done.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Failure is one of the new opportunities for success.”
― Sujit Kumar Mishra

“Ungodly influencers don’t just hold sway over the scientific establishment, but they also control the majority of the news media, entertainment media, education establishment, fact-checkers, search engines, social media, corporate leadership, book-publishing establishment, libraries, and every other place of influence and power.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“They used as a reason for my transfer [from one prison to another] that I refused to take some kind of shots, an innoculation or something.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The closest thing is, uh, in 1917, they say, uh, The Great- the Great Pandemic; and it certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people; probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick.”
― Donald J. Trump

“Kindness is a knowledge which every body can understand.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The teacher teaches.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The complete transition from cub to lion can only be achieved via the school of real life.”
― Anas Hamshari, Businessman With An Affliction

“All training except the most basic either secures or disestablishes things as they are.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“2. “Development that is solely defined in terms of external presence or absence of infrastructure is an: “Arrested/Provisional Development”. Its only goal is to mitigate immediate sufferings. The people’s emotions are played on, their current sufferings and hardship retards their vision, their sense of worth as humans and ultimately their expectations are miniaturized and capped. Development in other places we regard as developed nations actually is a crystallization of the collectively shared thoughts of the people on their Health, Education, Shelter, Security, Intelligence etc. We should really be asking ourselves these questions whenever we notice any so called developmental projects going on; What is our definition of schooling; what kind of schooling experience befits Humans who are Nigerians? What kind of facilities, facilitators befits Humans, Nigerians? What Objective and content should we as a people pursue? What is our definition of Market; what kind of market befits Humans, Nigerians; do you think a market should have functional drains, recycling plants, water facilities, paved parking lots, lighting facilities? Do you think Humans, Nigerians deserve these and more?”
― Onakpoberuo Onoriode Victor

“4. “Restricting the concept of Corruption to Theft and financial crimes is a significant setback to the #Anti-Corruption effort of #government. We should rather be concerned about, why people conceive and execute self-gratifying ideas to the detriment of others? What practices, acts or omissions led to such theft of public funds? Why the absence of the culture of objective, nonpartisan monitoring and supervision in Governments MDAs? Why patriotism seem to be a foolish idea among Nigerians? Why religious and ethnic sentiments now play frontal roles in public administration? Why the thought about unity, one Nigeria is still a debatable ideology? Why merit and loyalty to service are no longer popular and desirable values? Why wrong doing, violation of rules and crime in the public service still generates polarizing perceptions? Why it takes so long to call out and sanction wrong doing even when it is reported? Why people are more comfortable with the status of nonperformance and the practice of proffering excuses for nonperformance? Why budgets don't perform as they should and Governments MDAs not leaving up to their mandates? Why our elections are still like war situations? Why the dichotomy on the subject matter of restructuring...North/South etc.?”
― Onakpoberuo Onoriode Victor

“Time is a train of opportunity, empty wagons in the space of existence; our existence is actually the effort of putting materials, values into these empty wagons, spaces of time”
― Onakpoberuo Onoriode Victor

“Modernity is the progressive conquering of fear through the testing of assumptions; while Primitivity is the continued accommodation of fear and unwillingness to test assumptions".”
― Onakpoberuo Onoriode Victor

“Grandma entertained us with reading or checkers or chess so we wouldn't bother Mother as she studied for her night-school exams. She was determined to complete her master's degree.”
― Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

“Mother [Lois Marie Pattillo] began meeting with a few others from our community who were also determined to be admitted to the graduate school of education at the university.”
― Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

“My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954.”
― Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High