"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better." ― Wendell Phillips Topic(s): Education More From Wendell Phillips "Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories." "What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind." "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers." More In Education "To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius."― Minna Antrim "Education is all a matter of building bridges."― Ralph Ellison "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."― Francis Bacon