Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known best for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit. A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions almost guaranteed social ostracism.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.