Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"There are three schoolmasters
for everybody that will employ them -
the senses, intelligent companions, and books."

~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher  

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"The greatest Glory of a free-born People,
Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children."

~ William Havard  

"Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn math and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities."

~ Seymour Papert  

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

~ Steve Biko  

"Above all things I hope the education of the common people
will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense
we may rely with the most security for the preservation
of a due degree of liberty."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death --- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history.
It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood
and by teaching disrespect for home and parents...."

~ John Taylor Gatto  

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

~ Leonardo da Vinci  

"No use to shout at them to pay attention.
If the situations, the materials,
the problems before the child do not interest him,
his attention will slip off to what does interest him,
and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back."

~ John Holt  

"The desire to know is natural to good men."

~ Leonardo da Vinci  

"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being."

~ Lord Acton  

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."

~ A. A. Milne  

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"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