Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
From W. E. B. Du Bois
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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