Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both read more

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early read more

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of read more

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 is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.