Education Quotes

"Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people."

"The advantage of being educated is not the knowledge but the power it gives."

"A primary school education is the foundation of all freedom."

"The success of republican government rests upon the intelligence of the people."

"The great desideratum is to establish a universal system of education."

"The orators of former ages have been your examples."

"Education is the great conservator of liberty."

"A fondness for reading, which properly directed, may be converted to a valuable source of instruction and entertainment."

"To learn, we must be humble."

"The capacity of the female mind for studies is as good as that of males."

"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, until they arrive at a period that ought to be secured by law for the union of the sexes, ought to be the care and expense of the public."

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."

"The dignity of human nature requires the cultivation of intellectual powers."

"The art of reading is the most important of all accomplishments."

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."

"Learning to read is to light a fire; every word spelled is fuel."

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"The mind, like a rich soil in a neglected state, becomes overgrown with weeds."

"Youth must make its own discoveries and must arrive at its own conclusions."

"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."

"The person who reads nothing at all is better educated than the person who reads nothing but newspapers."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

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

"There is nothing more important for the public weal than to form and train our youth in wisdom and virtue."

"If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

"The best security for a free people is a well-informed citizenry."

"The basis of national morality must be laid in the education of the children."