Quotes

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom."

-- John Adams

(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President

Source: "Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America," 1787

"Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system."

-- Richard Mitchell

Source: The Underground Grammarian

"Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?"

-- Stephen Arons

Source: Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling

"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President