“You educate a man; you educate a Man. You educate a woman; you educate a Generation. ”

“And I says back to him, “Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,” and he says back to me, “I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,” and I said, “Why?” and he says to me, “Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.””

“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.”

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.”

“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

“You can only have a new society, the visionaries have said, if you change the education of the younger generation. Yet the new society itself is the necessary force for change in education.”

“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.”

“You have a faint education look about you. An educated girl never has an educated look. I cannot stand an educated look on women. It's Communism. Look at me, I passed my University entrance, but I don't show it.”