Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-04-30 Apr 30, 2024Remind students that one of the central missions of the university, which justifies its existence, is to get at the truth. That requires honest debate, patience, intellectual honesty, investigation, and a lot of hard work. But it also is not for the faint of heart. And that is a lesson that is almost never transmitted today. That offense, bruising thoughts, and unpleasant facts simply go with the territory. They are an intrinsic feature of an open society, and they never can be entirely avoided.~ Amy WaxThe test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.~ Henri Frederic AmielLiberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.~ John F. Kennedy Apr 29, 2024Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.~ Abigail AdamsThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.~ Eric HofferYou cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.~ Galileo Galilei Apr 26, 2024In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned assault...~ Richard N. GardnerJust as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.~ Dr. Thomas SowellIs it not ironical that in a planned society of controlled workers given compulsory assignments, where religious expression is suppressed, the press controlled, and all media of communication censored, where a puppet government is encouraged but denied any real authority, where great attention is given to efficiency and character reports, and attendance at cultural assemblies is mandatory, where it is avowed that all will be administered to each according to his needs and performance required from each according to his abilities, and where those who flee are tracked down, returned, and punished for trying to escape - in short in the milieu of the typical large American secondary school - we attempt to teach 'the democratic system'?~ Royce Van Norman Apr 25, 2024The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.~ Steve BikoWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.~ Thomas JeffersonThe greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.~ William Havard 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print