Education For Liberation Quotes & Sayings

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly. — Auliq Ice

Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's ignorance.

To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of this great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in a measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation. — George Spencer-Brown

The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal. — Jane Rule

Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life consists of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had. — Marya Mannes

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school. — Kailash Satyarthi

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. — Jane Rule

Self-education is the greatest self-liberation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

On still another road, a green-haired man wobbled by on peppermint-stick stilts; a fiery-plumed bird of paradise perched on his shoulder. But he's not in this story, so don't pay any attention to him. — Christopher Healy

Self education leads to self-development and self-liberation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is the best form of education? Isn't education which provided self-liberation and liberation of other individuals? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world. — Cindy Campopiano

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated - and turned out to grass. — Pearl S. Buck

Education is liberation, knowledge is power. — Henry Johnson Jr

The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity. — Richard Price

The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

John Taylor Gatto's extraordinary book, Dumbing Us Down. Check out Mary Griffith's The Unschooling Handbook and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Take a look at Home Education Magazine and its website. — Daniel H. Pink

...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers. — Kate Berridge

The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived. The convert who approaches the people but feels alarm at each step they take, each doubt they express, and each suggestion they offer, and attempts to impose his "status," remains nostalgic towards his origins. — Paulo Freire

Liberate yourself from any mental captivity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self education is the key to self liberation. — Lailah Gifty Akita