James A. Baldwin Quotes About Education
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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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.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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