Ro Khanna Quotes

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

I think public life for me has a slightly didactic role, OK.

Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

It is absolutely the case that much needs to be done to invigorate and elevate the quality of civic learning in America

I rejoice in having so favorable an opportunity of felicitating the State of Rhode Island on the co-operation I am sure to find in the measures adopted by the guardians of literature in this place, for improving the morals of the rising generation, and inculcating upon their minds principles peculiarly calculated for the preservation of our rights and liberties. You may rely on whatever protection I may be able to afford in so important an object as the education of our youth.

A popular society must provide a school for citizens where through the best, most accessible and direct means they may be educated in the pure doctrine of Patriotism.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.

We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and who show solidarity with others.

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.