Miseducation Quotes

“We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Ignorance has its own advantages.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.”
― Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory

“Humans have strayed so far from the notion that food is medicine, they think it’s reasonable to place pharmacies in our food markets. Think about that one.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics