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Franklin told of something which had happened at Lancaster in Pennsylvania at a treaty between the Six Nations and Virginia in 1744. The Virginia commissioners offered to take six Indian boys and educate them at the college in Williamsburg. The Indians, after politely waiting till the next day, declined the offer. Their young men who had gone to college in the northern provinces had come back 'bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our languages imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for warriors, hunters, or counselors; they were totally good for nothing.' But the Indians would take a dozen Virginia boys and educate them properly in the forest. Benjamin Franklin		Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. Marian Wright Edelman

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Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.

Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.

Other Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

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

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.