He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life.
-- Christopher Darlington Morley [Parnassus on Wheels, 1917]

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. -- John F. Kennedy

A child miseducated is a child lost.
-- John F. Kennedy

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
-- Francis Keppel

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-- (unknown)

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
-- Malcolm X

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.  ~Mohammed