"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education." ― Julian Bond Topic(s): Education More From Julian Bond "As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge." "I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work." "As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn’t have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn’t keep up with their promise. Education didn’t prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas." More In Education "We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, ‘You can’t come in unless you have these skills, unless you’ve taken these courses.’ We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system."― Donna Shalala "The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."― Ernest Renan "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."― Sydney J. Harris