Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I 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 Chalotais  

"We 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 Congress  

"THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents' sending children to the government to be educated."

~ Neal Boortz  

"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance.

~ Hendrik van Loon  

"Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it."

~ Mark Twain  

"The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"As a general thing the only persons who have a legal right to give orders to the teacher are his employers, namely, the committee in some States, and in others the directors or trustees. If his conduct is approved by his employers the parents have no remedy as against him or them."

~ John Swett

"The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils."

~ Lester Frank Ward  

"Remind 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 Wax  

"The 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 Amiel  

"Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

~ Abigail Adams  

"The 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 Hoffer  

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."

~ Galileo Galilei