Popular Education Quotes

• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

  James A. Garfield

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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• Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.

  Ilya Ilf

  Uzbekistan, Irrigation, Drank

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• The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.

  N. C. Wyeth

  Children, Character, Sheep

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• It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Independent, Thinking, Race

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• .....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

  Carl Phillips

  Impact, Enormous

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• Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

  H. L. Mencken

  Encouragement, Birth Rate, Democracy

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