If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And itβs O.K., but itβs of no account. less than 1 minute read
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. less than 1 minute read
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. less than 1 minute read
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. less than 1 minute read
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. less than 1 minute read
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. less than 1 minute read
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. less than 1 minute read
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. less than 1 minute read