My hobby more and more is likely to be common school…

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of…

— Dalai Lama

“In spite of this, there is no doubt that the modern European and American system of universal education suffered from serious defects. In the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The industrialized mass nature of school goes back to the very beginning, to the common school and the normal school and the idea of…

— Seth Godin

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may…

— Horace Mann

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…

— Horace Mann

“In the nearly half-century since then, belief in the promise of education as the universal solution to unemployment and poverty has evolved hardly at…

— Martin Ford

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving…

— Bertrand Russell

“Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one…

— Amanda Ripley

As for free education, universal medical care and other basic rights: Yes, people have to fight! Of course they have to. Free and good…

— Andre Vltchek

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“So when we think about the future, how to build a healthy humanity, we really have to think about how we create a new…

— Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

“Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on…

— Ivan Illich