USC: Museum of Education

Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984), a pioneer of adult educa-tion and literacy and founder of the Oppor-tunity School program in South Carolina, has been inducted into the Museum of Education’s South Carolina Education Hall of Honor. (Portrait: Museum of Education)

Inductee into the South Carolina Education Hall of Honor

[teachers must] "under-stand the intense yearning in the hearts of unlearned women to know how better to live so that they might come out of their corner of isolation and be a part of the community in which they live."

Wil Lou Gray, "The Beginning of the Opportunity Schools," unpublished paper, Museum of Education Gray Papers, p. 1.

Decal Photograph:
on location at the Museum of Education, south side of the Wardlaw Hall building on Greene St. between Sumter and Main streets, Columbia