1. Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts, but the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
2. It is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life, but the concentration of mind.
3. We want real education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
4. If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere.
5. There is only one purpose in the whole of life - education.