Malcolm X

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

I came in early every day for six months till I intercepted the letter from UCLA saying they’d never heard of me. I replaced it with a letter that said I’d graduated.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.

My last year in high school, I worked at a bindery, side by side with grown-ups who had been there their entire lives. Knowing that I, as a 16-year-old, was getting the same income and doing the same work… it gave me respect for those workers. But it also gave me an understanding that more is needed for folks to be able to cobble together a decent life on minimum wage.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field!

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.

You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

Many of my students don’t know that I’m second lady of the United States… because, you know, it’s a community college.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn’t have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work – and a lot of financial aid – I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.

[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.