education importance Quotes



Dr. Ambrose was the senior Black education official in the country. Note his title which was given to him by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.


Alabama. Mississippi and the other states of the South have from the inception of the nation had a much poorer educational system (often no system at all). Even when Jim Crow discrimination was rampant in the South, the white schools were very poor and the Black schools terrible. At the end of the 20th century after integration, there were more serious attempts to improve education in the South and progress is being made to reach parity with the rest of the country. However, there is still in many Southern school boards hostility to science and other aspects of modern education and Southern states tend to censor school texts and library books this weakening the educational system. But progress is being made.


Although much opposition to education comes from religious groups, it is noteworthy that the Lutheran founder saw education per se as an weapon against the Devil and that view was promulgated in Colonial America. This particular quotation was used by Cotton Mather of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in his treatise on the importance of education. See also {612014}