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- what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil…
- no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them…
- I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and…
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
- Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands…
- All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
- People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
- The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these…
- Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree,…
- There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
- If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
- Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given…
- Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to…
- ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation…
- The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe