 | American Museum of Natural History - Natural history museums - 1925 - 712 pages
...man. — Thomas Jefferson, 1822. Upon the subject of Education, not presuming to dictate any plans or system respecting it, I can only say that I view...subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. — Abraham Lincoln, 1832. Education should not confine itself to books. It must train executive power,... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...could only be justified in cases of greatest necessity.1 Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I viewit as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive... | |
 | 1904 - 390 pages
...Baths. Bedrooms, and Social Hall, to cost $100,000. WORDS OF LINCOLN. "Upon the subject of education, I can only say that I view it as the most important...subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in." Address, March 9, 1832. "Here, without contemplating consequences, before heaven, and in the face of... | |
 | Education - 1907 - 738 pages
...but for the fundamental andc perennial truth which they contained. He spoke of education, and said, "I can only say that I view it as the most important...subject, which we, as a people, can be engaged in. I desire to see the time when education shall become much more general than at present ; and should... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...could only be justified in cases of greatest necessity. Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can...important subject which we as a people can be engaged 20 in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the... | |
 | William Harrison Mace - 1912 - 226 pages
...charging high rates of interest by passing a law against it. On the question of education, he said : "I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in." He asked the people to overlook his youth, and declared that he had spoken the truth. Not long after... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1913 - 1010 pages
...lawyer ss« AWAHAM LDTCOIX Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate anj plan or tsyntetn respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the...subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That ev«-ry MM may receire at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1913 - 844 pages
...education and urged the "thorough education of all classes of the people"; Lincoln, who viewed education as "the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in"; Charles Sumner, Calvin Wiley, who considered it the lasting honor of his State that "her public schools... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1917 - 582 pages
...the Sangamon "Journal": "Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plans or systems respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject that we as a people can be engaged in." According to the interesting narrative of " Truancy and Non-Attendance... | |
 | Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge - Chicago (Ill.) - 1917 - 502 pages
...question of public education. Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or systems respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject that we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and... | |
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. 
