 | Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - 1927 - 1094 σελίδες
...the way out is forward, not back. Jefferson said, "If a nation expects to be free and ignorant in the state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." The way out, therefore, is forward through education — the proper education for leisure. Failure of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1928 - 582 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1928 - 566 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... | |
 | 1921 - 482 σελίδες
...schools without at the same time producing a cheap civilization. The real truth of Jefferson's statement, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," has been realized emotionally but not financially by America. American educational duty cannot be performed... | |
 | 1929 - 506 σελίδες
...situation so ably phrased over a century ago by Jefferson, who wrote to his friend, Colonel Yancey: " If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state...it expects what never was and never will be." The President of the infant Republic, Mustapha Kemal Pasha, realized that illiteracy in Turkey presented... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1962 - 880 σελίδες
...community. But a better argument, and one that should impress us all, is Thomas Jefferson's statement that "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." ALL BENEFIT— ALL SHOULD CONTRIBUTE We as a Nation have far too much at stake to take the sanguine... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1998 - 1092 σελίδες
...public school systems We worked from the premise laid down 200 years ago by Thomas Jefferson, who said: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. What was true then is doubly true today as we are about the enter the 21 st century Almost overnight,... | |
 | Robert A. Roth - 1999 - 282 σελίδες
...teachers into the full stature of their possibility. Our third president, Thomas Jefferson, said it best: 'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be' (1816). References ALLEN. D. and RYAN. K. (1969) Microteaching. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. AMERICAN... | |
 | Robert W. Kweit, Mary Grisez Kweit - 1999 - 492 σελίδες
...voters with an education to ensure that they would cast their votes intelligently. As Jefferson said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a...civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."10 By 1850 the principle of free public education had been accepted in every northern state, but... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 σελίδες
...letter to John Adums, 28 October 181 }, in PL Ford led.) Writings of Thomas Jefferson ( 1 898) vol. 9 19 If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state ol civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. letter to Colonel Charles Yancev, ft... | |
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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. 
