Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Interpretation
Education is essential for a free society, as informed citizens protect liberty.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the vital role of education in maintaining freedom and democracy. By educating the populace, individuals become informed participants in governance, which is necessary for the preservation of liberty. Jefferson believed that a well-informed citizenry is crucial for safeguarding rights and preventing tyranny.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for educational reform.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they don't even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.
When I first started in this field there were all kinds of stereotypes about autism, as if these were children from another planet, or children who had been brought up by wolves, that they weren't part of our population and were somehow separate.
Geography is the study of earth as the home of people
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies β for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry β I say to myself, βWhat a pity I canβt buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.
If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.
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