James A. Baldwin Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. July 29, 1979.

• 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 A. Baldwin

  Education, Paradox, Conscious

  "A Talk to Teachers". James A. Baldwin's address to a group of educators (October 1963), first published in the Saturday Review (December 1963), later quoted in "James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil" by Clint Smith, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2017.

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, Country, Independent

• 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

  Education, Decision, Looks

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, School, White

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