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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. (Aiken Howard)
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. (Aiken Howard)
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. (Aiken Howard)
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. (Aiken Howard)
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. (Aiken Howard)
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. (Aiken Howard)
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life. (Aiken Howard)
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. (Aiken Howard)
The education of a man is never complete until he dies. (Aiken Howard)
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. (Aiken Howard)
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 may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. (Aiken Howard)
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity. (Aiken Howard)
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. (Aiken Howard)
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. (Aiken Howard)
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. (Aiken Howard)
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. (Aiken Howard)
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. (Aiken Howard)
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery. (Aiken Howard)
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. (Aiken Howard)
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. (Aiken Howard)
The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir. (Aiken Howard)
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