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Education Quotes To Impart Knowledge, Widom & Deepen Understanding In All Arenas of Life
Commentary  © 2007  Richard J. Chandler & Bonnett Chandler

Martin Luther King Jr.

One of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. organized and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights and other basic civil rights. A Baptist minister by training, King became an activist early in his career, leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Taking inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi, King utilized nonviolent civil disobedience to raise consciousness. Between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, providing what he called a coalition of conscience and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the black revolution. He planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of African-Americans as voters and his monumental 1963 March on Washington, DC in which Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, electrifying the crowd.

This speech is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory.  King conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963, and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

            

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.  (1929-1968)

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Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby, who in addition to receiving eight honorary degrees, with all but one being doctorate degrees, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he grew up, and earned his Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1972 and his (Ed.D.) Doctorate in Education in 1977 from the University of Massachusetts. His dissertation had the rather unique title of: An Integration of the Visual Media via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning.

He wasn’t always so committed to education. Due to working a great deal early in the morning before school as well as after school in the afternoons and evenings to help support his family combined with too much joking around in class, Cosby failed the 10th grade.  He apprenticed with a shoe repair business then enlisted in the Navy for four years where he worked as a Hospital Corpsman doing physical therapy for Korean War Vets. After the service, he completed his high school equivalency through correspondence courses then won a track scholarship to Temple University. He left after his sophomore year to pursue a career in comedy and returned to complete his degree after a number of successful years performing and producing his comedy routines as LP’s. He continued with his successful comedy and acting career as well as excelling in higher education as noted above. More recently, he is known for his strong advocacy for education and a strong work ethic as the prescription for achievement.

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”

- Bill Cosby  (1937- )

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Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University and a professional designer of humane livestock facilities. She is a leading expert on the humane treatment of livestock handling. Grandin has said, “I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we’ve got to do it right. We’ve got to give those animals a decent life and we’ve got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”

She also became well known after being described by the neurologist, Oliver Sacks, in the title narrative of his book, An Anthropologist on Mars, due to her diagnosis of autism. Dr. Grandin speaks on the topic of autism around the world and has also been featured on major television programs, such as ABC's Primetime Live, The Today Show, and Larry King Live. She has been the subject of articles in People magazine, Forbes, the New York Times, and Time magazine. She is also the author of several books on autism.

“A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.”

“I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.”

“People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.”

                       

“You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.”

“Autistic people are closer to animals than normal people are.”

“People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.”

- Temple Grandin  (1946-)

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Albert Einstein, named by Time Magazine in 1999 as the “Person of the Century,” wrote his 1st scientific paper at age 15 and by age 21 earned his degree in physics. After graduation, he spent almost 2 years unsuccessfully looking for a teaching job in academia and through the help of a friend’s father, eventually landed a job with the Swiss patent office, where he continued to work, despite being passed over for a promotion. He continued to publish extraordinarily important scientific works including his famous “Theory of Relativity” and eventually held a series of jobs in ever more prestigious universities, from which he negotiated contractual clauses that enabled him devote a great deal more of his time to writing and publishing than to teaching.

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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The first black woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1964, Marian Wright Edelman is an American activist. She is president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund.

“If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.”

- Marian Wright Edelman  (1939- )

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From Anatole France, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.

“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”

- Anatole France   (1844 - 1924)

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“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”

- Chinese proverb

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A quotation by American historian, attorney, author, professor and the ‘Librarian of Congress’ appointed by President Ford.

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004)

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Al McGuire was a Marquette University basketball coach and colorful personality.

“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver.  Then they would really be educated.”

- Al McGuire  (1928-2001)

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Another wonderful quotation honoring teachers from Albert Einstein. Young Albert, whose family was Jewish, did well in school, despite having had speech difficulties during his first years of attending a Catholic grade school.

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

- Albert Einstein  (1879-1955)

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We know of no person more deserving of success and wealth than Oprah Winfrey, due to her engaging, forthright and motivational leadership, shown through presentation of important topics, elegantly presented to us with candor, heartfelt warmth and compassion.

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

- Oprah Gail Winfrey (1954- )

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Although Henry Ford was a pacifist, he contributed greatly to the allied victories of WWI and WWII by dramatically increasing production of military aircraft through applying his innovations in automobile assembly line production to the manufacture of airplanes while we were at war. Most of his vast personal fortune continues to contribute to the welfare of our planet through his ‘Ford Foundation’.

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

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