 | Charles Edwin Robert - 1880 - 184 halaman
...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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1880 - 500 halaman
...schools must be free, and the attendance upon them compulsory. A popular government, says Madison, without popular 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 who mean to be their... | |
 | 1881 - 674 halaman
...abstract principle, it requires no argument to establish the truth of Madison's immortal apothegm that " a popular government, without popular information...but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps to both," It is to be feared, however, that very few have clearly f ornmlated the extent and imminency... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 halaman
...value of popular education. In a letter to Wm. T. Barry, of Kentucky, dated Aug. 4, 1826, he says: "A popular government without popular information,...means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1881 - 98 halaman
...liberty could not be kept burning in the hearts of Americans." Madison said, almost sixty years ago, " A popular government, without popular information...means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both." Already, in too many instances, elections have become the farce which... | |
 | 1881 - 350 halaman
...uncertain guardian of national honor and interests. " A popular government," said President Madison, " without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or, perhaps, to both." A materialist may hold that the origin, existence, and death of nations... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1881 - 372 halaman
...complete system of schools, from primary school to university, on the ground of the public good, says, "A popular government, 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 meanf to be their o.vn... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1881 - 372 halaman
...complete system of schools, from primary school to university, on the ground of the public good, says, " A popular government, 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... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 452 halaman
...improvement of roads, rivers, canals, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union?" " A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but the prologue to a farce or a tragedy— or perhaps to both."— J nmes Madison. " The advancement of... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 436 halaman
...improvement of roads, rivers, canals, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union ?" " A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but the prologue to a farce or a tragedy — or perhaps to both." — James Madison. " The advancement... | |
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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... 
