"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave." -Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
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"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life." -Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8BC) Roman poet
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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being." - Lord Acton [John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902), First Baron Acton of Aldenham 1887 Source: Lord Acton, Selected Writings of Lord Acton: Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality, ed. J. Rufus Fears, 3 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1988), 3:490
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It behooves me to point out that the education being discussed is not the same thing as the "public education" going on now
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