Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 350
“For on these matters we should not trust the multitude who say that none ought to be educated but the free, but rather to philosophers, who say that the educated alone are free.”
Book II, ch. 1.
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“To free education for all. … We seek to build an education system that is open to all.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)
Context: The foundation of Scotland's success - our great intellectual, social and economic flourishing - was our commitment to education. To free education for all.... We seek to build an education system that is open to all. A system that will not just benefit our economy - but will help to strengthen Scotland's entire civic and intellectual life. That is why we place such strong emphasis on ethics and values.
Allan Bloom (1930–1992) American philosopher, classicist, and academician
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 286.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
William of Ockham (1285–1349) medieval philosopher and theologian
Vol. I, Book 2, Ch. 22 http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/dialogus/t1d2b.html, as translated by John Scott (1999) <br class="br">Dialogus (1494)
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (1980), p. 246
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
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Book II, ch. 1.
James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Fragments of Markham's notes
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Our instinct has outrun our theory in this matter; for while we still insist upon free will and sin, we make allowance for individuals who have gone wrong, on the very ground of provocation, of temptation, of bad education, of infirm character. By and by philosophy will follow, and so at last we may hope for a true theory of morals. It is curious to watch, in the history of religious beliefs, the gradual elimination of this monster of moral evil. The first state of mankind is the unreflecting state. The nature is undeveloped, looking neither before nor after; it acts on the impulse of the moment, and is troubled with no weary retrospect, nor with any notions of a remote future which present conduct can affect; and knowing neither good nor evil, better or worse, it does simply what it desires, and is happy in it. It is the state analogous to the early childhood of each of us, and is represented in the common theory of Paradise — the state of innocence.