Get inspired with these wise quotes about the power of education
1. Once you learn to read you will be forever free (Frederick Douglass).
Douglass was one of America’s greatest writers and thinkers, despite the fact he was born into slavery, a system that forbade (запрещала) reading. His classic treatise (труд, исследование) on freedom, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” is still read today.
2. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool (William Shakespeare).
(=does think, действительно думает, что) Ever the more ironic because spoken by the court jester (придворный шут), Shakespeare’s words point toward the infinite qualities of knowledge.
3. A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated (Horace Mann)
Mann was an American abolitionist (сторонник отмены рабства) and major advocate for public education. He believed that education was the “great equalizer,” capable of making society fair and balanced.
