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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman
Education, Learning, Community
Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.18, Beacon Press

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

Marian Wright Edelman
Education, Children, Life Lesson
Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.21, Beacon Press

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Marian Wright Edelman
Education, America, Survival

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman
Family, Education, Children

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Marian Wright Edelman
Education, Children, Rights

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