Education By James Baldwin Quotes

#1. When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

Helen Schucman

#2. America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Bono

#3. The purpose of education ... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

James A. Baldwin

#4. Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

James Baldwin

#5. Relationships don't stay the same. There isn't time.

Liane Moriarty

#6. 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.

James Baldwin

#7. He stops pacing and turns toward me. You won't wait for me. I won't let you give up what should be the best year of your life. I had to grow up way too fast; I'm not taking that away from you, too. It wouldn't be fair. I don't want you to wait for me, Layken.

Colleen Hoover

#8. We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

James Baldwin

#9. It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.

Alex Lifeson

#10. It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James Baldwin