“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”

“A little snark, properly directed, can change the world.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”

“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

“Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.”

“Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

“If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education.”

“[E]ducation in a democracy, in our democracy, must use all the instruments of civilization, home, church, community, as well as school, for the adequate, suitable development of each child. This means that character and imagination, as well as heart and hand, are developed together.
Education in a democracy must consciously direct reading and observation, principle and practice to the happiness, the responsibilities, and the participation of group living. Government in a democracy is not “they,” it is “us.””