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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

There is no education like adversity.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

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

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man estate, is the gift of education.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Do not just stand there, make it happen.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Education is indoctrination if you are white - subjugation if you are black.