"The good Education of Youth has been esteemed……" — Benjamin Franklin

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in… - Benjamin Franklin

"The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country."

— Benjamin Franklin

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