Class Quote by John Adams

“The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.”

— Peter O. Gray

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary,…

— Aristotle

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

— Henry Giroux

It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of…

— Noah Webster

Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to…

— David Brin

The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of…

— Gouverneur Morris

The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ...…

— Noah Webster

The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is…

— Bertrand Russell

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

— Sydney J. Harris

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of…

— Plato

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

— Julia Ward Howe

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

— Leo Strauss