Lincoln on Education

For the 215th birthday of our 2nd greatest president, let's enjoy some Abraham Lincoln quotes regarding education.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

Every head should be cultivated.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

And the most important for our times:

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.