George Fraser Quotes

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

Only the educated are free.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.

Without education, you can’t have democracy.

There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding … as we are ourselves.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

The colored population voluntarily sustain several churches, schools, and mutual assistance and improvement societies, and there are evidently persons among them of no inconsiderable cultivation of mind.

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.

Growing up in the inner city, a lot of kids didn't think reading was cool. I'm trying to show them that it is cool and the importance of growing and learning outside of their everyday lives, which is a lot of times sports.

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.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Education is freedom.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

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

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.