Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

~ Helen Keller  

"My grandmother wanted me to have an education,
so she kept me out of school."

~ Margaret Mead  

"Consider compulsory school-attendance laws, for instance. They fill government schools with children who don't want to be there. Some students are violent, attacking -- and even killing -- teachers and other students. Teachers must lock their classrooms to keep hoodlums at bay in the hallways. Thus, compulsory attendance laws, alleged to promote education, can make it almost impossible."

~ Marisa Manley  

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

~ Albert Einstein  

~ Buddha  

"Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little
of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent
obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children
for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties."

~ James Monroe  

"Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant."

~ John Adams  

"I cannot live without books."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught, at the same time, that he must forsake, and even forget them, when the welfare of his country requires it."

~ Dr. Benjamin Rush  

"The end and aim of all education is the development of character."

~ Francis W. Parker  

"Some want prayer in school, some want condoms.
Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody."

~ Marshall Fritz  

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

~ Andre Gide  

"It is always a part of the misfortunes of the vanquished that their portraits are painted and their history written by the victors."

~ A. Yankee  

"A 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 Lee