Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

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

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.