"Schools need not preach political doctrine to..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.
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“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
“To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.”
“In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.”
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“Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.”
“The world must be made safe for democracy.”
“Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.”