I. ‘Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
II. Our intellectual ore must shine, not slumber idly in the mine. Let education's moral mint the noblest images imprint. - Hannah More (1745-1833)
III. Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel (1770-1831)
IV. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. - Lord Brougham (1778-1868)
V. What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
VI. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
VII. Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)