Page 2 - Merritt College Student Handbook and Planner 2021-2022

The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. - Confucius
– Malcolm X
Every student can learn, just not on
Success doesn’t come to you... you go to it.
- Marva Collins
the same day, or the same way.”
– George Evans
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses. – Bobby Seale
I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the
programming of the system.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
– Huey Newton
Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon
Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything!
– George Carlin
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William A. Ward
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
– Marian Wright Edelman
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
– Maya Angelou
– John Dewey