"I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching"

"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"