“There's a new tribunal now, higher than God's - the educated man's!”
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“There's a new tribunal now, higher than God's - the educated man's!”
“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this”
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit”
“The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education”
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled”
“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge”
“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity”
“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost”
“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state”
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously”
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know”
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”
“To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student”
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots”
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is”
“Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain”