Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It 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 Kors  

"I 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 Bork  

“With 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

"The 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 Chodorov  

"What 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 Nietzsche  

"School 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  

"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"The public expects too much from teachers because educationists have led it to believe teachers could be substitute parents, psychotherapists, cops, social workers, dieticians, nursemaids, babysitters, and nose wipers and still do a decent job teaching kids to read, write, and do math. Instead of saying no, educationists have added courses in environmental education, death education, personal hygiene, self-esteem, driver's ed, job readiness, sexual harassment, radon studies, yoga, yogurt awareness, and god-knows-what-else."

~ Charlie Sykes  

"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 only fence against the world
is a thorough knowledge of it."

~ John Locke  

"There is no slavery but ignorance.
Liberty is the child of intelligence."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"You can't make socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."

~ Rosalie M. Gordon  

"Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge.
Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights."

~ Dr. Benjamin Rush  

"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates… to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them."

~ John Adams