Sadiq Kahn Quotes

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.

Without education, you can’t have democracy.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Education is not just another consumer item. It is the bedrock of our democracy.

Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

Woman should hasten to repair her ignorance of the country’s laws and needs, by a thorough knowledge and acquaintance of those which govern her and affect humanity.

We cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government, for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

Education, then, as universally diffused as the elements of God, is the life-blood of our body politic. The intelligence of the people is the one great fact of our civilization and our prosperity, — it is the beating heart of our age and of our land. It is education alone which makes equality possible without anarchy, and liberty without license.

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.