We are born weak we need strength helpless we need aid foolish we need reason. All that we lack at birth all that we need when we come to man's estate is the gift of education.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Education then beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Frivolity is inborn conceit acquired by education.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford he should be carried forward at the public expense.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
There is no education like adversity.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Education begins the gentleman but reading good company and reflection must finish him.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.