Ivan Illich Quotes

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

Education is largely run at the state level.

Michele Bachmann said that if she is elected president, she would consider eliminating the Department of Education because "the states could do a gooder job.

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

Education in France is used to inculcate the values of the state.

the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society... The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

The Federal Government does not have a huge role in education and most parents like it that way.

Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas.

No religious education may be imparted without the consent of the Government.

Children, although for the most part under the unwritten discipline of home, are not to be regarded as outside the control of public regulation. For the education of children is a matter of more than private interest; it concerns the State, which indeed regards the right training of the young as, in certain aspects, within its proper sphere. I would wish to see this responsibility extended.

An act to provide for the education of the poor, gratis

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery..

So I think there's a potential to make tuition free at public universities as part as young people doing national service. I think that is the most realistic option.

Education needs to be our state's top priority.

Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.

As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.