Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

I believe, Sir, that it is the right and the duty of the State to provide means of education for the common people. This proposition seems to me to be implied in every definition that has ever yet been given of the functions of a government.

In view of the importance of education, Punjab government is making all-out efforts for the promotion of education throughout the province.

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. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

The problems of public schools will not be solved by cutting off the source of their funding, which is what vouchers are.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

There shall be a system of common schools ... to be open without charge to all classes of persons

The establishment of a republican government without well-appointed and efficient means for the universal education of the people is the most rash and foolhardy experiment ever tried by man.

In raising the educational level of the country, the role of the Federal Government is extremely limited.