Dropouts Quote by Benjamin Barber

“Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to protect their liberty. . . It…

— Neil Postman

“Did Jefferson really believe Black people were smart in slavery and stupid in freedom?13 Notes”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden…

— Walter Karp

“Ignorance is the prison that confines us, but true education is the key that sets us free.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

It is better to support schools than jails.

— Mark Twain

“With Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson emerged as the preeminent American authority on Black intellectual inferiority. This status would persist over…

— Ibram X. Kendi

A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said,…

— Eric Foner

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public…

— Matt Blunt

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

— Camille Paglia

Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“As he saw it, the central issue had shifted from the purely racial to the economic. King likened the situation to a lifelong prisoner…

— Hampton Sides