"Shafting Boys," http://www.ilanamercer.com/Shafting%20Boys.htm WorldNetDaily.com, January 27, 2006.
2000s, 2006
[Terry Gross, Lawrence Wright : Bin Laden's Death 'Long In Coming', Fresh Air, National Public Radio, May 2, 2011]
“Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.”
No. I, "The Cabinet", p. 19
The English Constitution (1867)
Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 86.
2010s, Our revolution's doing what Saleh can't – uniting Yemen (2011)
“The collapse of education is a collapse of the nation.”
The statement is misattributed to Mandela by Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam at a press conference https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202005/19/P2020051900367.htm, which was found by the media https://hongkongfp.com/2020/05/19/history-exam-row-hong-kongs-carrie-lam-dismisses-claims-of-political-intervention-appears-to-misquote-mandela/ to be misattribution.
Misattributed
“An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s
Source: Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (2015), pp. 154–155.
“Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the instincts of human nature.”
Source: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 505
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.”
Special Message to the Congress on Education (20 February 1961) http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk46_61.html
1961
Context: Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
“Nothing more than education advances the prosperity, the power, and the happiness of a nation. ”
