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Quote by Hosea Ballou
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Education commences at the mothers knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. – Hosea Ballou

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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou

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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. – John F. Kennedy

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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. – David Horowitz

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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. – Joseph Lancaster

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Few things are as essential as education. – Walter Annenberg

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