The sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned.
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
You must plan for the future, boy. You’ve got to find a direction.[to Wart]
You can’t grow up without a decent education.[to Wart]
The whole town’s talking about it. It’s not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking.[to Belle]
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
How do you ever expect to amount to anything without an education, I’d like to know? Even in these bungling, backward, medieval times you have got to know where you’re going, don’t you?[to Wart]