Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-04-24 Apr 24, 2024Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. GarfieldWe must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.~ EpictetusYou cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.~ G. R. Capp Apr 23, 2024The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.~ Norman ThomasThe philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.~ Abraham LincolnBy establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.~ Adam Weishaupt Apr 22, 2024Education is the best provision for old age.~ AristotleUpon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.~ Benjamin DisraeliBut how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?~ Daniel Joseph Berrigan Apr 19, 2024It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.~ Alan Charles KorsI don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.~ Robert BorkWith all the pious talk about "tolerance" in the media and in academia, there is virtually none for those who challenge the dogmas of political correctness in most of our colleges and universities.~ Thomas Sowell Apr 18, 2024The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as "free education" is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.~ Frank ChodorovWhat is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.~ Friedrich NietzscheSchool is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course.~ John Taylor Gatto Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print