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  • If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

    Education   Freedom   War  
    Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816
  • Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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  • The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.

    Girl   Real   Educational  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”
  • This new enemy seeks to destroy our freedom and impose its views. We value life; the terrorists ruthlessly destroy it. We value education; the terrorists do not believe women should be educated or should have health care, or should leave their homes. We value the right to speak our minds; for the terrorists, free expression can be grounds for execution. We respect people of all faiths and welcome the free practice of religion; our enemy wants to dictate how to think and how to worship even to their fellow Muslims.

    Speech in Atlanta, www.cnn.com. November 08, 2001.
  • The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  • My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

  • Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

    Wall   Lying   Real  
    "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".
  • The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

  • Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

    Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press
  • I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

  • An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

    Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth
  • I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

  • All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

    Faith   Education   Art  
    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 29, 2016
  • Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

    Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on
  • The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

    "Mormon Parenting Secrets: Time-Tested Methods for Raising Exceptional Children". Book by Flint Stephens (p. 20), September 30, 2011.
  • Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  • It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  • It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

  • Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

    Educational   Men   Baha  
  • Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  • The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  • Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

  • If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  • The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

    Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
  • The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

    "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.
  • Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

    New Scientist 21 May 1964
  • Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

    "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.
  • The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

    John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”
  • Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

    Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.354, Hackett Publishing
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