Citizenship Quote by Norman Cousins

[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and…

— H. L. Mencken

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The long-term effect of this has been to open Western societies to immigration, and to impart an ideal of citizenship that, it is hoped,…

— Roger Scruton

Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his…

— Isaiah Bowman

“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge…

— H.L. Mencken

“The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as “human capital” or…

— Diane Ravitch

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

— Calvin Coolidge

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by…

— Henry Steele Commager

People have become educated, but have not become human.

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

— Robert Green Ingersoll

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind…

— John Finley