Joycelyn Elders Healthy Quotations

If I could make any changes at all to the current health care system, you know I would start with education, education, education. You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.

You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.