Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.