Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

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

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

If seeds of good humanity and good culture are sown, the reward of a rich harvest can be reaped by generation to come. Education means such sowing, such implementing.