Patriotic Quotes

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding. — Ezra Loomis Pound

My grandmother wanted me to have an education so she kept me out of school. — Margaret Mead

It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It’s a bureaucratic system where everybody’s role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s not a surprise when a school system doesn’t improve. It more resembles a Communist economy than our own market economy. — Albert Shanker

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — Malcolm S. Forbes

The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller

Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, “What will we do with them?” I say that’s a secondary issue. The first priority is to stop thugs from making education impossible for everyone else. — Walter Williams

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. — Thomas Paine

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. — H. L. Mencken

The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination. — Wendy McElroy, Demystifying the State

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational “excellence,” I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity. — Thomas Sowell

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. — Henry David Thoreau

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. — Thomas Jefferson

It would be a mistake to assume that the present-day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals. — Alvin Toffler

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. — Thomas Sowell

There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions. — Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism

Too much of what is called “education” is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. — Thomas Sowell

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. — John Locke, 1693

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill

What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know; it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. — Yogi Berra

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