Aim Quote by Richard Reti

“Education is the basis of law and order.”

— Ransom Stoddard

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

— Thomas J. Sergiovanni

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

... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and…

— Catharine Beecher

The most fundamental principle of the law is that it must apply equally to everyone.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

“Two seemingly antagonistic forces, equally deleterious in their actions and ultimately combining to produce their results, are at present ruling over our educational institutions,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.

— Winthrop W. Aldrich

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great…

— Tracy Kidder

School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and cleverer.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

“There are two simple principles which, if they were adopted, would solve almost all social problems. The first is that education should have for…

— Bertrand Russell

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

— Maria Montessori

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

— Adam Weishaupt