“Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.” ShouldImportantIndividualDemocracyCitizensModelsAll ThingsRemainsParticipantsBernard Shaw Author:Jacques Barzun
“One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.” ChildrenEnoughSchoolRolesBecomingCitizensModelsResponsibleRole ModelsProactiveAvailabilityInside And Outside Author:Azim Premji
“Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.” MindHas BeensStatesBodyPoliticalBreakCitizensTaxesModelsTasksPropertyEducationalAcceptedDoctrineReleaseControlledSooner Or LaterPreyInfancyPolitical PowerSupremacyEducational SystemClutchSuperhumanCompulsoryOctopusTotalitarian State Book:God of the Machine Source: God of the Machine
“The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.” PersonsCitizensModelsPrintHippie Author:Terence McKenna
“You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.” MatterJobsInterestCommonBecomingCitizensSkillsModelsConcernedEducationalCriticalAccessSuburbsCommon GoodEducational SystemPublic InterestVanilla Author:Cornel West
“You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, "I don't need them in this context" or "I can't understand this," they are no longer rights.” IfsNeedsI CanGovernmentResponsibilityRightsCitizensModelsJustifyIntrusionInvert Author:Edward Snowden
“There isn't any problem with little girls. And there isn't any problem with young women or adult women. I mean, they are model citizens. It's the guys that create all of the problems in our culture. And so it's the guys that have to be reprogrammed. Not the women.” MeanLittlesProblemYoungGuyCultureGirlCitizensModelsAdultsYoung Women Author:Rush Limbaugh