The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.