Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-06-12 Jun 12, 2006Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. GarfieldLet us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.~ James MonroeThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth.~ Diogenes Jun 9, 2006Education is the best provision for old age.~ AristotleWe must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.~ EpictetusSuffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.~ Horace Jun 8, 2006The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh BillingsThere are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.~ Roger BaconExample is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke Jun 7, 2006A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin FranklinTo educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.~ Frederick DouglassNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jun 6, 2006There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. IngersollKnowledge and human power are synonymous.~ Sir Francis BaconIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print