A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war.—­Milton.

Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education.  The feelings are to be disciplined, the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances.  All this is comprised in education.—­Webster.

It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society.  We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanics’ institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

Unless your cask is perfectly clean, whatever you pour into it turns sour.—­Horace.

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent.  They know the alphabet.  The alphabet is conquering the world.—­G.W.  Curtis.

Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.—­James A. Garfield.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.—­Gascoigne.

On the diffusion of education among the people rests the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.—­Webster.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character.  Let parents bear this ever in mind.—­Hosea Ballou.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.—­Chapin.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,—­rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.—­Beattie.

Into what boundless life does education admit us.  Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being—­positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.—­Chapin.

All that a university or final highest school can do for us is still but what the first school began doing—­teach us to read.  We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books.  But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves.  It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us.  The true university of these days is a collection of books.—­Carlyle.

If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them—­you first make thieves and then punish them.—­Sir Thomas more.