Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

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

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.

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

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

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.

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.

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.

Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.

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.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.