In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.