Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society."

~ Antonio Gramsci  

"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

~ Isabel Paterson  

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

~ Josef Stalin  

“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte  

“Education... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and 'fans,' driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves."

~ John Holt  

"In 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 Hitler  

"Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation."

~ Bernhard Rust  

"Place 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

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

~ Plutarch  

"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  

"Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'"

~ George Clinton  

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

~ James Monroe  

"What'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 Russell  

"The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people."

~ Peter McWilliams