Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Kings … will … take possession of the children, who will be unaffected by the habits of their parents; these they will train in their own habits and laws."

~ Plato  

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin."

~ William O. Douglas  

"Men exist for the sake of one another.
Teach them then or bear with them."

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus  

"Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable."

~ Pope John Paul II  

"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."

~ Robert M. Hutchins  

"Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change."

~ Frank H. Knight  

"What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"A family member asked my wife, "Aren't you concerned about his (our son's) socialization with other kids?" My wife gave this response: "Go to your local middle school, junior high, or high school, walk down the hallways, and tell me which behavior you see that you think our son should emulate." "

~ Manfred B. Zysk  

"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."

~ Francis Xavier  

"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."

~ John Dewey (False)  

"The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous."

~ John Swett

"In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess."

~ David Horowitz  

"There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility."

~ Jacob Bronowski  

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."

~ John F. Kennedy