Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.
A native of America who cannot read and write is as rare an appearance as a Jacobite or a Roman Catholic, that is, as rare as a comet or an earthquake. A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Misattributed