"All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society." ― Joseph Lancaster Topic(s): Society More From Joseph Lancaster "May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks." "Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it." "The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects." More In Society "Never believe people in this business who say they don’t read what’s written about them."― Ryan Seacrest "All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first."― John T. Flynn "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."― Milton Friedman