“Education shapes the moral grammar of a nation. It teaches citizens not just how to earn, but how to reason, dissent, and coexist. An unthinking population is the easiest to govern and the hardest to liberate.”
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Stringfellow Barr (1897–1982) American writer
"Liberal Education: Enabling Citizens to do their Duty as Free Men", Report of the president of St. John's College to the Board of Visitors and Governors, May, 1941. Hanging in Buchanan Hall, St. John's College Annapolis
James Truslow Adams (1878–1949) American writer and historian
To "Be" or to "DO" Forum, Jun 1929; VOL. LXXXI, NO. 6
Misattributed
Context: There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
James Truslow Adams; sometimes rendered : "There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live".
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Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Speech delivered on September 6, 1990, before the Annual Judicial Conference of the Second Circuit, quoted in Supreme Justice Speeches and Writings Thurgood Marshall. Edited by J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2002).
Patrick Pearse (1879–1916) Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916
Address delivered at the Grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown Churchyard, Co. Kildare, 22 June 1913
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce Preface: "TO THE PARLAMENT OF ENGLAND" https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/ddd/parliament/text.shtml (1643)