Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts. - John Lancaster Spalding

More inspiring and interesting teaching alone can make progress in education possible: for such teaching alone has power to produce greater self-activity, greater concentration of mind, greater desire to learn not only how to get a living, but how to live.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful—it is enough that it is a truth.