"I looked the other day with wonder and affection on a 1916 Model T Ford. It brought back a thousand memories of my childhood, for this was the first automobile we ever owned in our family. It was a thing of wonder when we were children. You today know little of these cars. They had no battery, and the source of electricity was a magneto. At night the intensity of the light depended on the speed of the motor. If the motor were kept running at high speed, the lights were bright. If the motor slowed down, the lights became a sickly yellow.

"It is so with our minds. If we keep them sharpened on good literature and uplifting entertainment, development is inevitable. If we starve them with the drivel of miserable shows, cheap literature, beatnik entertainment, they become poor indeed" (Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [1997], 168).

"None of us can assume that he has learned enough. As the door closes on one phase of life, it opens on another, where we must continue to pursue knowledge. Ours ought to be a ceaseless quest for truth. . . . As we go forward with our lives and our search for truth, let us look for the good, the beautiful, the positive" (Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [1997], 301).

"I believe in the pursuit of education. What is education? Reduced to its most simplistic definition it is the training of the mind and the body. What a remarkable thing this is, this process whereby the cumulative knowledge of the centuries has been summarized and filtered so that in a brief period one can learn what was first learned only through long exercises of research, trial, and error. Education is a great conversion process under which abstract knowledge becomes useful and productive activity. It is something that never need stop—no matter how old we grow we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can be entertained through the miracle of reading and exposure to the arts—they add to the blessings and fulfillment of living" (Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [1997], 170-71).

"Get all the education you can, I wish to say to the young people. Cultivate skills of mind and hands. Education is the key to opportunity. The Lord has placed upon you, as members of this Church, the obligation to study and to learn of things spiritual, yes, but of things temporal also. Acquire all of the education that you can, even if it means great sacrifice while you are young. You will bless the lives of your children. You will bless the Church because you will reflect honor to this work" (Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [1997], 172).

"Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility. Yet opportunities and abilities differ. I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty" (Russell M. Nelson, "Where Is Wisdom?" Ensign, Nov. 1992, 6).

"The Church has always had a vital interest in public education and encourages its members to participate in parent-teacher activities and other events designed to improve the education of our youth" (Thomas S. Monson, "Precious Children—A Gift from God," Ensign, Nov. 1991, 67).

"Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain" (Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [1988], 297).

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