John W. Alvord Quotes

Education is freedom.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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

You could not let your masters see you read; but now [after Emancipation] the colored people are fond of sending their children to school. Because the children in after years will be able to tell us ignorant ones how to do for ourselves.

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

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

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 in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Read books. They are good for us.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Man is what he reads.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I did more for the Russian serf in giving him land as well as personal liberty, than America did for the Negro slave set free by the proclamation of President Lincoln. How could you Americans have been so blind as to leave the Negro slave without the tools to work out his own salvation ….Without property of any kind he cannot education himself or his children.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

When you've got education, you've got knowledge and power and confidence to go out in the world.

For me, education was power.

People believe in the power of education to change lives.