Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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.

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.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good read more

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.