4 James A. Garfield Quotes on Education

James A. Garfield quotes on education

6. The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

11. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

34. It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown. Let our people find a new meaning in the divine oracle which declares that 'a little child shall lead them,' for our own little children will soon control the destinies of the Republic.

42. History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.