Quotations on / about education

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

(Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. III, p. 619, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (August 5, 1880).)
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Every day care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.

(James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century), U.S. child development specialist, author. Teaching the Child Under Six, ch. 1 (1968).)
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Girls, get an education and escape slavery.

(Rena Rietveld Verduin, U.S. farm woman. As quoted in The Female Experience, ch. 45, by Gerda Lerner (1977). Said in a 1907 debate organized by the Lansing Country Culture Club. She was reacting to the typical hard life of a farm woman.)
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Labor is God's education.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech, January 25, 1841, before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, Massachusetts. "Man the Reformer," Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849).)
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

(Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. Pro Flacco, fragment.)
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It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

(Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), U.S. author. "Notes on English and American Style," The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976).)
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I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one, and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence.

(William Howard Taft (1857-1930), U.S. president. Address to the State Institute and College at Columbus, Mississippi, October 12, 1910. Presidential Addresses and State Papers of William Howard Taft, March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1910, 1: 396-97, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1910). A female institution.)
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Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.

(Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist. repr. in Collected Works, vol. 4, para. 442, ed. William McGuire (1961). The Theory of Psychoanalysis (1913).)
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Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation's agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family's financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.

(Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), U.S. president. The Vantage Point, ch. 9, pp. 207-208, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971). Presidential speech.)
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If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it? With regard to the education of my own children, I find myself soon out of my depth, destitute and deficient in every part of education. I most sincerely wish ... that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.

(Abigail Adams (1744-1818), U.S. matriarch; wife and mother of United States President. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution, letter dated August 14, 1776 (1875). In a letter to her husband John Adams, who was away at war. She was reacting to his letter of August 3, in which he lamented his "countrymen's" lack of "art and address" and "knowledge of the world.")
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