W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

A great education is a passport to a new life

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I expect if you are going to come out of the shadows, then you're going to want to have some type of hope in the future that you're going to improve your life and, yes, accomplish that American Dream.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.