Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. -James Baldwin.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.