Value of education

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For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

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Wallace, William Ross. What Rules the World. 1865.

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Wallace, William Ross. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle." Poetry for a Lifetime: All-Time Favorite Poems to Delight and Inspire All Ages, edited by Samuel Norfleet Etheredge. MiraVista Press, 1999.

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Aristotle. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 18.

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Aristotle. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 18.

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Aristotle. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 19.

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Aristotle. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 19.

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Democritus. Tetralogies of Thrasyllus. c. 420 BC, Fr. 180.

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Democritus. Quoted in Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers, written and translated by Kathleen Freeman. Harvard University Press, 1983.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

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Everett, Edward. "A Good Idea." Salem Gazette, 14 Mar. 1937.

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Proverbs 4:13).

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Unto This Last

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Ruskin, John. "Unto this Last." Cornhill Magazine, Aug. - Dec. 1860.

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Ruskin, John. "Unto This Last." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 17, Cambridge University Press, 2010, no. 2.