Quotes that relate to history and education

Here are some quotes that I have been utilizing with my students this week as writing prompts in Language Arts.  We are finishing up Sign of the Beaver, so while discussing theme, these provided a way to show how many books have multiple lessons or overriding themes.  The students had a great time explaining/arguing why the quote they chose from the list best fit the book.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

-Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the 4th of July. -Frederick Douglass

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. -Frederick Douglass

 What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.-Samuel Johnson

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.  -Albert Einstein

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.  ~G.M. Trevelyan

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  ~Edward Everett

"Who you are is a result of what you have thought." -Buddha

"Do not prepare the path for the child. Prepare the child for the path and he will find his way." - Unknown, Native American

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither .-Benjamin Franklin