Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day-- In sighing and dismay.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

By education most have been misled.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.