Gunnar Myrdal: Quotes about education

Gunnar Myrdal was Swedish economist. Explore interesting quotes on education.
Gunnar Myrdal: 52   quotes 1   like

“Education means an assimilation of white American culture. It decreases the dissimilarity of the Negroes from other Americans.”

Gunnar Myrdal book An American Dilemma

Source: An American Dilemma (1944), p. 879

Education

“White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support to white prejudice. White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually ‘cause’ each other.”

Gunnar Myrdal book An American Dilemma

Source: An American Dilemma (1944), p. 75

Health , Education , Support

“Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.”

Gunnar Myrdal

Myrdal (1984), quoted in: Revue internationale de pédagogie expérimentale, Vol. 22-23. H. Dunantlaan 1. (1985), p. 367

Education , Hope , History

“The objective of an educational campaign is to minimize prejudice—or, at least, to bring the conflict between prejudice and ideals out into the open and to force the white citizen to take his choice”

Gunnar Myrdal book An American Dilemma

Source: An American Dilemma (1944), p. 385-6

Education