Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-04-22 Apr 22, 2025The road to hell is paved with good intentions.~ Late 16th Century ProverbThe desire to know is natural to good men.~ Leonardo da VinciThe roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.~ Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr. Apr 21, 2025The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.~ Bill ClintonIf it would be wrong for the government to adopt an official religion, then, for the same reasons, it would be wrong for the government to adopt official education policies. The moral case for freedom of religion stands or falls with that for freedom of education. A society that champions freedom of religion but at the same time countenances state regulation of education has a great deal of explaining to do.~ James R. OttesonIf a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. The Establishment Clause does not license government to treat religion and those who teach or practice it … as subversive of American ideals.~ US Supreme Court Apr 18, 2025In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.~ Eric HofferThe best of all government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Apr 17, 2025Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.~ Mark TwainDrop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it... Rise for the flag salute.~ Frank ZappaThe only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.~ George Bernard Shaw Apr 16, 2025Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonWhenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.~ Thomas SowellOur schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.~ William T. Harris Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print