Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.Michel de Montaigne
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.Michel de Montaigne
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.Arthur Schopenhauer
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.Cicero
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.Cicero
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?Cicero