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Black Education Quotes

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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what’s best for all  (Black Education Quotes) Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which ‘learning’ and ‘play’ are diametrically opposed. ‘Learning’ is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. ‘Play’ is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional  (Black Education Quotes) During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed  (Black Education Quotes) We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.  (Black Education Quotes) Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn’t a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that’s not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.  (Black Education Quotes) Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.  (Black Education Quotes) That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.  (Black Education Quotes) Before playing football, I didn’t fit in anywhere. My parents didn’t have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I’d come back to my hood and read.  (Black Education Quotes) Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children  (Black Education Quotes) There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people  (Black Education Quotes) My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education  (Black Education Quotes)