Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-11-18 Nov 18, 2003It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.~ Friedrich August von HayekTo make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.~ John RuskinAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Nov 17, 2003Learn as much by writing as by reading.~ Lord ActonEducation's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.~ Malcolm S. ForbesAbove all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.~ Thomas Jefferson Nov 14, 2003I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known.~ Noel CowardThe highest result of education is tolerance.~ Helen KellerI choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. They never pauperize. They reach the aspiring and open to these chief treasures of the world -- those stored up in books. A taste for reading drives out lower tastes.~ Andrew Carnegie Nov 13, 2003Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. GarfieldReligion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.~ Northwest Ordinance, Article III, 1787Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Nov 12, 2003But it was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.~ James Russell LowellIt is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.~ Benjamin Disraeli Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print