Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
I believe education is the great equalizer.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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