Curtis Mayfield Quotes

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

We need a serious intellectual culture in schools.

Schools teach ignorance.

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

A good education should leave much to be desired.