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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.