Depends Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be…

— George Washington

“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the…

— John Stuart Mill

... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and…

— Catharine Beecher

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

— Bobby Scott

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the…

— Bertrand Russell

Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling,…

— Rudolf Rocker

The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

— John Hoeven

I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a…

— Thomas Jefferson

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it…

— John Stuart Mill

“...the establishment of a universal system of public education inevitably changed the relations of education to the state. It is this above all else…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst…

— Frederic Bastiat