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"Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life."
"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
"There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps."
"Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one."
"It is always in season for old men to learn."
"'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'."
"See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning."
"The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."
"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing."
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."
"And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
"Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work."
"You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand.""
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
"My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach."
"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."
"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."