As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.