“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense
“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together
“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit
“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know
“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery