Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a read more

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

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

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.

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.

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.

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.