What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

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.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.