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Top 20 Joseph Lancaster Quotes (2025 Update)

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.”

1. “All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.”

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Joseph Lancaster Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.”

3. “A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “The rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.”

4. “The rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.”

6. “The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.”

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Joseph Lancaster Quote: “Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.”

7. “Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.”

8. “I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.”

9. “This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.”

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Joseph Lancaster Quote: “The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.”

10. “The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.”

11. “IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.”

12. “When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”

13. “I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.”

14. “We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.”

15. “At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.”

16. “My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.”

17. “The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.”

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Joseph Lancaster Quote: “A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.”

18. “A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.”

19. “Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.”

— Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster Quote: “Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.”

20. “Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.”

— Joseph Lancaster

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