 | Massachusetts - 1878 - 970 pages
...information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1878 - 890 pages
...a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. Madison says: Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. * * « Every class is interested in establishments which give to the human mind... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1879 - 294 pages
...information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both." Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. In the Constitution of Massachusetts adopted nearly one hundred years ago may... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1879 - 868 pages
...humane and generous mind, no expense ffcr this purpose would be thought extravagant. Madison says: Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their ow» governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. * * * Every class is interested... | |
 | Charles Edwin Röbert - 1880 - 186 pages
...generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant." Ex-President Madison, says, " Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. . . . Every class is interested in. establishments which give to the human mind... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1880 - 500 pages
...information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. In the Constitution of Massachusetts, adopted nearly one hundred years ago,... | |
 | Charles Edwin Robert - 1880 - 184 pages
...generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant." Ex-President Madison, says, " Knowledge will forever govern ignorance ; and a people...be their own governors must arm themselves with the powerrwhich knowledge gives. . . . Every class is interested in establishments which give to the human... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 pages
...ignorance is weakness. Your Committee have already quoted the pregnant remark of Mr. Madison, that " Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people...to be their own governors must arm themselves with this power which knowledge gives." Can the people of the United States feel that they have done their... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1881 - 372 pages
...without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is a farce or a tragedy or both. Knowledge will govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." John Adams says : " The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge... | |
 | Missouri. General Assembly. Senate - 1885 - 944 pages
...State, and is the greatest safeguard against all crimes and public calamities. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. Many deem the. accumulation of vast wealth in the hands of a few in our land... | |
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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... 
