Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...