"The public school has become the established church of secular society"

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country"

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"