Quotes on American Education

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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 can be engaged in.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.