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Education must have two foundations -- morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
Opportunity is what America is all about, and education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.
If we are to improve our standard of living, protect and defend our democratic freedom, and strengthen our moral character as a nation, nothing is more important than education.
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man - the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -- the educated man's!
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life -- subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide, must greatly influence an individual's personality -- no human being's education can have a safe foundation.
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in . If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.