-- Frederick Douglass
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-- Nelson Mandela
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
-- Edward Everett
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
-- Marian Wright Edelman
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-- Sir Richard Steele
A nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H. G. Wells, Outline of History
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
-- James A. Garfield
There are all too few libraries, and far too many restaurants. People should eat less and think more.
-- Matthew Adams
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
-- John Adams
Education would be much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every student should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
-- Sir William Haley
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
-- Bell Hooks
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
-- Nancy Astor
Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.
-- Unknown
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.
-- Carl Sagan
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
-- Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin... the great equalizer of the conditions of men - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
-- Horace Mann
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading now, or surrender yourself to self-ignorance.
-- Unknown
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
-- Herbert Spencer
Read, read, read. Do, do, do.
-- Louis L'Amour
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
-- Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
-- Claiborne Pell
An intelligent person is not necessarily one who knows the answers but rather knows where to find them.
-- John Ellison
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
-- Unknown
The better the citizenry as a whole are educated, the wider and more sensible public participation, debate and social mobility will be... Highly sophisticated elites are the easiest and least original thing a society can produce. The most difficult and the most valuable is a well-educated populace.
-- John Ralston Saul
When one stops to consider what life would be like without the ability to read... eyeglasses suddenly appear as important as the wheel.
-- Barbara Tuchman
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
-- John Quincy Adams
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Chinese proverb
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
-- Sir John Lubbock
Never let school interfere with your education.
-- Mark Twain
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
-- Groucho Marx
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
-- John F. Kennedy
A book is a garden you carry in your pocket.
-- Arab proverb
