„My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.“

— Maya Angelou

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poetessa, attrice e ballerina statunitense 1928 - 2014

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„My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.“

— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.“

— Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid scholar 948 - 1022
The Book of Guidance into the Lives of the Twelve Imams, 1981, ""The Life of the Commander of the Faithful"" (I. K. A. Howard (tr.)). http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561557126/Intelligence_No_tool_is_more_beneficial_than.html

„I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.“

— Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

„I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.“

— Felix Frankfurter American judge 1882 - 1965
Of Law and Life and Other Things: Papers and Address of Felix Frankfurter (1965).

„A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.“

— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
As quoted in Stepping Stones : The Complete Bible Narratives (1941)

„President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob! There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren't taught by some liberal college professor and trying to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college: he wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his.“

— Rick Santorum American politician 1958
speech at Americans for Prosperity Tea Party event at Troy, Michigan, referring to President Obama saying, in his first address to Congress in , "Tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be a community college or a four-year school, vocational training or an apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma."

„So tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be a community college or a four-year school, vocational training or an apprenticeship. But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma.“

— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
First address to Congress (24 February 2009)

„It is not my intention to denounce modern education. If it is bad, it may be said that all education is bad which is not self-education, and quite a lot of self-education is going on today — some of it in our schools, under the very noses of the teachers!“

— Robertson Davies Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist 1913 - 1995

„As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.“

— Mitch Albom American author 1958

„Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.“

— Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor
Context: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. Guardian Camwar, in Ch. 4 : the cooper

„My grandfather just had a grade-school education. But in that country store he taught me more about equality in the eyes of the Lord than all my professors at Georgetown; more about the intrinsic worth of every individual than all the philosophers at Oxford; and he taught me more about the need for equal justice than all the jurists at Yale Law School.“

— Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States 1946
"A Place Called Hope" (July 16, 1992)

„The Hindus do not pay particular attention to alchemy, but no nation is entirely free from it, and one nation has more bias for it than another, which must not be construed as proving intelligence or ignorance; for we find that many intelligent people are entirely given to alchemy, whilst ignorant people ridicule the art and its adepts.“

— Al-Biruni Persian scholar and polymath 973 - 1048
Alberuni, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 1

„Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.“

— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

„I didn’t come from a background that had any idea about what contemporary art was, it was not anti or pro, it had nothing to do with it. I do remember something my mother said when I was sixteen. I was going off to college, and I said, “I think I’m going to be an artist, not a professor of philosophy.” They all assumed I would be a professor because I’m good at logic, and she looked at me and she said, “Lawrence, you’ll break your heart.” And I said, “Why?” And she said, “Art is for rich people and women.”“

— Lawrence Weiner American artist 1942
Lawrence Weiner in: Thessaly La Force, " STUDIO VISIT Lawrence Weiner http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/02/14/lawrence-weiner/," at theparisreview.org/blog, February 14, 2011.

„Nature herself supplies us with an ascending scale or Alphabet of angles for half a degree up to 60 degrees, Specimens of which are placed in every Elementary School throughout the land. Owing to occasional retrogressions, to still more frequent moral and intellectual stagnation, and to the extraordinary fecundity of the Criminal and Vagabond Classes, there is always a vast superfluity of individuals of the half degree and single degree class, and a fair abundance of Specimens up to 10 degrees. These are absolutely destitute of civic rights; and a great number of them, not having even intelligence enough for the purposes of warfare, are devoted by the States to the service of education. Fettered immovably so as to remove all possibility of danger, they are placed in the class rooms of our Infant Schools, and there they are utilized by the Board of Education for the purpose of imparting to the offspring of the Middle Classes that tact and intelligence of which these wretched creatures themselves are utterly devoid.“

— Edwin Abbott Abbott British theologian and author 1838 - 1926
Chapter 5. Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another

„I would say the main thing in any young kid's life is education. Even if a guy is prejudiced, he can be educated to understand why he is prejudiced. Education plays a great role in all life, whether you're black or white. You've got to go to high school, you've got to go to college. When you come out of college or high school, you can play sports. If you ever get hurt, they can't take that brain away from you, you've got that.“

— Willie Mays Baseball player 1931