#politics

It’s scary to be a woman on a blind date. For all she knows the man she is meeting up with could be a rapist, a murderer, or, God forbid, a politician. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #murderer #politician #politics #rapist

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. ↗

— Anthony M. Platt

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I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. ↗

— Mimsy Sadofsky

#democracy #education #politics #education

The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction. ↗

— Gavin John Adams

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Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ↗

— Craig M. Mullaney

#dadt #history #military #philosophy #politics

Todos los esfuerzos--que no son pocos--hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en el mar de porquería de los medios de comunicación monopolizados por la iniciativa privada. ↗

— Rius

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