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Quotes of the Day for 5 April 2005 - Education

Two very different forces in American education were born on this day. Elihu Yale was born at Boston in 1649 to a wealthy family. He was educated at London, worked for the East India Company for 27 years, married more money, and gave a small Connecticut school a gift large enough that they named the school after him. In 1856, Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on a tobacco farm in Franklin County, Virginia. His first taste of school was carrying the books for his master's daughter, slaves weren't allowed in class. Washington went on to become a teacher, advocate for education for blacks, and founder of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Today's quotes deal with Education.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
     - Edward Everett Hale, 1794 - 1865

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
     - Epictetus

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
     - Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.
     - Mary Kay Utech

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
     - Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1899 - 1977

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 Rs, only one begins with an R.
     - Dennis Miller

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