A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.
Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.
