Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-05-08 May 8, 2024In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting – all these will be used as a means to this end.~ Adolf HitlerTeachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.~ Bernhard RustPlace the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.~ J. Gresham Machen May 7, 2024The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.~ PlutarchA teacher is never a giver of truth -- he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.~ Bruce LeeThink! It ain't illegal 'yet.'~ George Clinton May 6, 2024Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.~ James MonroeWhat's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.~ Bertrand RussellThe purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.~ Peter McWilliams May 3, 2024I claim for the nation an education that depends only on the State, because children of the State must be raised by members of the State.~ Louis-René de Caradeuc de La ChalotaisWe must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.~ Communist Party Education Workers CongressTHE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents' sending children to the government to be educated.~ Neal Boortz May 2, 2024Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAny formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance.~ Hendrik van LoonOften, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.~ Mark Twain Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print