The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

[In Is Higher Education for the Negro Hopeless? Dunbar responds to an essay in which Charles Dudley Warner, a white writer, contended blacks were better suited for industrial training, not higher learning. Dismissing Warner as] one who speaks without authority, ... I believe I know my own people pretty thoroughly. I know them all classes, the high and the low, and have yet to see any young man or young woman who had the spirit of work in them before, driven from labor by a college education.

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.

As a community, we have made great strides in education.
Compared to other places in western Kentucky, we're way ahead
because we have a quality school system and the Marion Ed-Tech
Center, ... I would rate our available
workforce a B to an A. The only reason it's not an A-plus, is
because we don't have enough available workers.