It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty–how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. – Henry Ward Beecher