Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers
into all its neighborhood.

A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers
into all its neighborhood.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the read more

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on read more

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

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.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself