“The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.”
—JOHN ADAMS
“A muttonhead, after an education at West Point—or Harvard—is a muttonhead still.”
—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“[T]he use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.”
—WOODROW WILSON
“[T]he world is full of educated derelicts.”
—CALVIN COOLIDGE
“What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?”
—RICHARD NIXON
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
—GEORGE W. BUSH
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
—GEORGE W. BUSH
“We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated!”
—DONALD TRUMP