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“We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.”

Believe Money Education Investment Expenses

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.”

Parent Common Education Son Common Sense Expenses Evermore

Author:John Dryden

“There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.”

Character School Memories Education Expenses Gears

Book:Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

Source: Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

“... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”

States Religion Causes Religious United Education Millions United States Wise Teaching Twenties Dollars Foolish Expenses Foolishness Unseen Alas

Author:Frances Wright

“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.”

People Should Whole School Individual Education Willing Bears Miles Expenses Squares Self Education Charitable

Book:The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence

Source: The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence

“The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.”

People Should Children School Education Class Rich Too Much Distance Noble Expenses Lowest Convenient Poorest

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

World Inspirational Giving Wells Mean Girl Women Inspiring Education Ten Settling Expenses Introducing Jane Mansfield Park Settling In

Book:Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“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.”

People Mind Would Be Law Purpose Education Class Learning Wise Youth Generous Expenses Humane Extravagant Public Education Lower Class Liberal Education

Book:Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

“Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.”

Children Doe Culture Girl Education Boys Huge Aim Educational Addresses Expenses Initiative Bias Literacy Integrating Initiate Unicef

Author:Ralph Fiennes