“Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society.” YearsPersonsSchoolCitizensTenInstitutionsTreatedOur SocietyMembershipCompulsory Author:Marie Brennan
“I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.” WorldFeelsSchoolAmericaBornCitizensEnglandBelgiumSwitzerland Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit. LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her. HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.” WayMayMeanCountrySchoolLawYoungSpiritTurnsGirlChurchCitiesBreakFineCitizensHonorLettersSatisfiedHelpfulVillageLoyalSimplestGiverDependable Author:Juliette Gordon Low
“We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.” PeopleSchoolRoomsEducationDestinyHigherCitizensShapesEducatedHopefulRepublicClassroomEnd TimesAlways BelievePublic EducationHigher Ground Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenWarGovernmentSchoolStrongCitiesCasesMilitaryObjectsDutyBearsCitizensFitAuthorityDevilDearObligationRulersRiflesSpearsStrong ManMilitary Service Author:Martin Luther
“They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.” PeopleGivingFirstsSchoolJobsYoungSuccessfulCitizensVery GoodBe GoodGood JobCharterGood CitizenCharter Schools Author:Charlie Munger
“The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.” EndsSchoolLawCitizensExperimentsAbidingDisarmingLaw Abiding Citizen Author:Steve Stockman
“We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.” PeopleNeedsPersonsCountrySchoolIdentityCitizensScholarBusiness PersonFuture Business Author:Benjamin Jealous
“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.” IfsFirstsMeanEndsSchoolForceWaterCommunityDoubtCuttingAirStreetsCitizensPoliticianTaxesPoliceDollarsMiseryCleanSticksAppealsConsumersNo DoubtPocketsFormulasAdequateInflationStarvingIrresistibleReductionPrivate SectorTax CutsAffluentPolice ForcePublic SectorClean AirGood SchoolAir And Water Book:The Recovery of Confidence Source: The Recovery of Confidence
“The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.” PeopleFirstsWellsStatesProblemSchoolGoalCitizensFunctionLabelsPrimariesGood PeopleEducatePublic SchoolIndoctrinationGood Citizen Book:Demystifying the State Source: Demystifying the State
“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
“The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.” SchoolPolicyCitizensSavingWelfareRemoveIncentives Author:Ludwig von Mises
“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization” PeopleShouldIdeasSelfSchoolSocialInterestCommunitySupportEconomyCitizensCivilizationLowsSeekingFavorsSellingTendenciesBuyingGradesMutualExpensesRise AboveBenevolenceInconsistentSocial SystemsAnti SocialInterchangeBuying And Selling Book:Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887 Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887
“I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I worked to make sure that kids with disabilities could get a public education, something that I care very much about. I have worked with Latinos - one of my first jobs in politics was down in south Texas registering Latino citizens to be able to vote. So I have a deep devotion to making sure that an every American feels like he or she has a place in our country.” FeelsFirstsChildrenCountryCareKidsAbleSchoolJobsYoungJusticeCitizensVoteSouthCriminalsLawyerDiscriminationDevotionOur CountryAfrican AmericanTexasDisabilityI CareLatinoJustice SystemCriminal JusticePublic EducationCriminal Justice System Author:Hillary Clinton
“In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.” MayStatesFactsSchoolNightWhiteSecretCitiesSawsHugeCitizensOne DaySenatorsCouncilCharterPrivate School Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.” MenYearsPersonsCharacterFactsSchoolYoungGrowsBlackMoralGrowing UpFiveMovementStudentsCitizensLuckyDemocraticChosenYoung ManFive YearsMeant To BeQuartersDefiningDemocratic SocietyMoral CharacterPreps Author:Bill Ayers
“People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.” PeopleImportantSchoolVoiceHeardCitizensMembersVotingDiscouragedLatinoFamily MembersClassmates Author:Barack Obama
“All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsStillsSchoolCultureLeftDemocracyCitizensCapablePercentDollarsDemocraticComing OutSiblingDemocratic SocietyInformed Citizens Author:Robert Bly
“We address the problems of so many Dutch citizens that are afraid to go out in their neighbourhoods after 10pm, who are afraid to send their children to school because of all the harassment they get from this parallel Islamic society. And people are not extreme in Holland.” PeopleChildrenProblemSchoolCitizensExtremesIslamicAddressesParallelsDutchHarassmentHollandNeighbourhoodsIslamic Society Author:Geert Wilders
“Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.” WorldGivingHumansSchoolOpportunityHuman BeingsVisionIdentityCitizensHatredMissionsEnormous Author:Amartya Sen
“Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.” TryingHelpingSchoolLiteratureSocialCitizensUniversityRetirementSocial WorkCarolinaUneducatedNorth CarolinaEducated And Uneducated Author:Charles Kuralt
“Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.” NeedsGivingShouldChildrenTodaySchoolJobsChoicesParentChanceCareersTomorrowCitizensSkillsShould HaveFellowsYour Children Author:Mitt Romney