If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

My father, at the Death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up literally without education.