Public Virtue from Education
“I think also that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth than from the exhortation of adult persons; bad habits and vices…
“I think also that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth than from the exhortation of adult persons; bad habits and vices…
“[A]n inclination joined with an ability to serve mankind, one’s country, friends and family… should indeed be the great aim and end of all learning.” —Benjamin Franklin, Smyth 2:396 (1749)