A popular Government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with... Journal of the Senate of the State of Missouri - Seite 49von Missouri. General Assembly. Senate - 1885Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| United States. Office of Education - 1940 - 576 Seiten
...of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. — Letter to WT Barry. Ibid., p. 104. While it is universally admitted that a well-instructed people... | |
| Lewis Flint Anderson - 1909 - 370 Seiten
...of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance : and a people who mean to be their...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." CHAPTER XXV THE NATURALISTIC MOVEMENT. ROUSSEAU . THE views of most eminent thinkers of this period... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1913 - 1096 Seiten
...of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. — Letter to WT Barry. Ibid., p. 104. While it is universally admitted that a well-instructed people... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1913 - 1010 Seiten
...of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.—Letter to WT Barry. Ibid., p. 104. While it is universally admitted that a well-instructed... | |
| 1953 - 348 Seiten
...undivided support of all Americans. President Madison once summed it up this way: "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." I congratulate you for the contribution you are making in this community to the advance of education... | |
| Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) - 1918 - 734 Seiten
...it," said Madison, "is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." We have adopted universal manhood suffrage in America. This may have been a blunder or it may not.... | |
| Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1919 - 434 Seiten
...it," said Madison, "is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...themselves with the power which knowledge gives." We have adopted universal manhood suffrage in America. This may have been a blunder or it may not.... | |
| Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - 1920 - 902 Seiten
...of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. John Adams, with true New England thoroughness, expressed the new motive for education still more forcibly... | |
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