Abraham lincoln Quote by Clinton R. LeFort

“In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into effect the Morrill Act, whose premise was the belief that “everyone could benefit from an education in…

— Clinton R. LeFort

“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”

— James Russell Lowell

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The lesson for progressive education is that it requires in an urgent degree, a degree more pressing than was incumbent upon former innovators, a…

— John Dewey

“Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.”

— New York Times April 19 1865

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on…

— Robert Orben

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether…

— Eric Foner

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of…

— Michael Ignatieff

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what…

— David Herbert Donald

“The era of mass education and the standardization of the English language left such expressions as marks of uneducated people in the American South”

— Thomas Sowell