Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but if I had to choose, I would prefer that to their being educated by the state."

~ Max Victor Belz  

"Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system."

~ Richard Mitchell  

"...[A] fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school."

~ Ivan Illich  

"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real."

~ John Taylor Gatto  

"I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: 'Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?' "

~ Leonardo da Vinci  

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

~ Plato  

"No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors."

~ John Holt  

"Education is unique among consumer products -- when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective."

~ Kevin Killion  

"If I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."

~ George Washington

"Free is not the same as free and easy."

~ Larry Eisenberg  

"A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it."

~ Senator Sam Ervin