Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-05-20 May 20, 2008We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools; and by open, hearty behavior, show condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.~ Adam WeishauptIt is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission, and welds them into unity.~ Benito MussoliniIn our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds, and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people, or any of their children, into philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen -- of whom we have an ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.~ John D. Rockefeller, Sr. May 19, 2008Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.~ Josef StalinThe education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.~ Karl MarxGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin May 16, 2008Anyone who argues by referring to authority is not using his mind but rather his memory.~ Leonardo da VinciI know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?~ Leonardo da VinciThe desire to know is natural to good men.~ Leonardo da Vinci May 15, 2008A native American who cannot read or write is as rare an appearance...as a comet or an earthquake.~ John AdamsChildren should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.~ John AdamsIt should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.~ John Adams May 14, 2008Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.~ Benjamin DisraeliWe are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government.~ Democratic National Platform of 1892Today's Democratic Party knows our children's education is not complete unless they learn good values. We applaud the efforts of the Clinton-Gore Administration to promote character education in our schools. Teaching good values, strong character, and the responsibilities of citizenship must be an essential part of American education.~ Democratic Party Platform of 1996 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print