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Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

The brain can be disciplined by learning the habit of obedience.

Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

During this night journey I put myself both in feeling and in fact in a blind man's place—the best lesson I ever had to develop deliberation and keenness of touch.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.

It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.

Man should make an art of thinking.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way.

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.