"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the men which it forms." - Henri Frederic Amiel
"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." - John Adams
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Marcus Aurelius
"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." - Jane Austen
"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." - Jane Austen
"There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it." - Jane Austen
