Able Quote by Abe Fortas

“Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were…

— Diane Ravitch

“Parents and other who complain often do so out of deep beliefs or convictions, and often in an effort to "protect" young people from…

— Joan Bertin

“..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of…

— Malcolm Bradbury

“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a form of…

— Martin Luther King Jr

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right,…

— Ed Royce

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

— Bryant H. McGill

The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that…

— Alfred Goodwin

“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“It is not possible to spend any prolonged period visiting public school classrooms without being appalled by the mutilation visible everywhere—mutilation of spontaneity, of…

— John Holt

“It's a fine line, but one that can, and must, be walked. Calling attention to, challenging, and educating the public about objectionable ideas or…

— Tammy Bruce

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming…

— Albert Einstein

“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be reached by…

— Thomas Paine