Quotes about Education
Here is a scene that happens in Brazil thousands of times each day: It's early morning. Time for young Marcos to leave for school. As he gathers his books and heads for the door, he stops by his father's chair. He looks into his father's face. "Benção, Pai?" (Blessing, Father?) Marcos asks. The father raises his hand. "Deus te abençoe, meu filho" (God bless you, my son), he says.
- Max Lucado
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
- Maya Angelou
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
- Maya Angelou
As I ate she began the first of what we later called "my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.
- Maya Angelou
Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us. We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.
- Maya Angelou
You do your best until you know better, then you do better.
- Maya Angelou
I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
- Maya Angelou
Teachers of my early youth Taught forgiveness stressed the truth Here then is my Christian lack: If I'm struck then I'll strike back.
- Maya Angelou
When you learn, teach
- Maya Angelou
Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.
- Maya Angelou
WHEN YOU LEARN, TEACH; WHEN YOU GET, GIVE
- Maya Angelou
If a little learning is dangerous, a little fame can be devastating.
- Maya Angelou