American culture Quote by Anonymous

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education.…

— Robert M. Hutchins

If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn, philosophy has…

— Roberto Esposito

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts…

— Plato

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

— Matthew Kelly

“If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such…

— Sigmund Freud

So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists…

— Kenny Smith

“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom rings across…

— Gary L. Bauer

“I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity…

— Stephen Batchelor

While I am happy to make the occasional foray into educational philosophy - writing, for example, of the difficulty in the contemporary context for…

— David E. Cooper

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

— Clarence Darrow

“For all the talk of education, modern societies neglect to examine by far the most influential means by which their populations are educated. Whatever…

— Alain de Botton

“When I was an undergraduate, the censors attacked the university from without. Now, they are entrenched in the faculties and administrations themselves. Then, the…

— David Horowitz