All JOHN ADAMS Quotes about “Education”

“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”
“You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.”
“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”
“But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.”
“Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.”
“A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.”
“Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.”
“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”

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