The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.