“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.”
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“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's 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.”
“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's estate, is the gift of education.”
“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”
“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.”
“Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.”
“Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.”
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”
“There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.”
“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”
“I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.”
“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.”
“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
“What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.”
“I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'”