More Education Quotes

The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent.
-– John Dewey, American educator

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.
-– Milton Friedman - Economist and 1976 Nobel Laureate

When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
-- Albert Shanker, Former President of the American Federation of Teachers

We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.
-- Communist Party Education Workers Congress (1918)

Whenever 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 Sowell

No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
-– Thomas Sowell

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
-– Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.
-– Walter Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University (2005)

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
-– Horace Mann, first secretary of education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as "free education" is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
-- Frank Chodorov, "Why Free Schools Are Not Free"