Quotes about Education Desire

John W. Alvord

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

By 1870 there were over 1000 schools in the South that had been founded and operated by the Freedmen’s Bureau. Despite the racist, negative stereotypes of Negroes, many of them were just the opposite from the stereotype as this quotation demonstrates.

Ann Cotton

My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.