Creating a nation requires the will of the people.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

It doesn't mean, ' she shrugged. 'It just is

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.