A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.

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

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

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step read more

Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.