The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
John Ruskin

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
Charles Stanley

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
Carol Burnett