 | Indiana University - 1921 - 356 σελίδες
...the only enduring foundation a democracy could have. He emphasized this thought most forcefully thus: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." He recognized of course that in children there are diffeiences in ability and he sought to make it... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - 1922 - 508 σελίδες
...Writing from Monticello to Colonel Yancey, in 1816, after his retirement from the presidency, he wrote: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. . . . There is no safe deposit (for the functions of government) but with the people themselves; nor... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1922 - 660 σελίδες
...the improved conditions for which they stand. Both Associations believe with Thomas Jefferson that, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. No other foundation... | |
 | 1922 - 1448 σελίδες
...be swept into the industrial maelstrom and eventually be drawn under. When Thomas Jefferson said, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," it was gospel truth; and James Buchanan rammed this truth home when he wrote that " Education lies... | |
 | 1924 - 592 σελίδες
...function of the common school in our civilization and blessed is he who improves it. — WT Harris. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson. The education of all classes of people is the best means of promoting the prosperity... | |
 | Harry Grove Wheat - 1923 - 364 σελίδες
...government. Witness the following expressions by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison : [Said Jefferson] If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization it expects what never was and never will be. . . . There is no safe deposit [for the functions of government], but with the people themselves; nor... | |
 | 1923 - 74 σελίδες
...be swept into the industrial maelstrom and eventually be drawn under. When Thomas Jefferson said, " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," it was gospel truth; and James Buchanan rammed this truth home when he wrote that " Education lies... | |
 | Anson Daniel Morse - 1923 - 320 σελίδες
...conduct so noteworthy as his zeal and efforts in the cause of education. "If a nation," he wrote in 1816, "expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." 1 It must be evident to every one who studies carefully the different forms of government, national,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1923 - 904 σελίδες
...public opinion, it should be enlightened. ""pHOMAS JEFFERSON— If a nation expects to be ignorant and 1 free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. JOHN JAY — I consider knowledge to be the soul of the Republic, and as the weak and the wicked are... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1924 - 792 σελίδες
...structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it should be enlightened. Thomas Jefferson: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. John Jay: I consider knowledge to be the soul of the Republic, and as the weak and the wicked are generally... | |
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. 
