 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...  Thomas Jefferson's Views on Public Education - Page 115by John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1880 - 500 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1881 - 98 pages
...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... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 pages
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 350 pages
...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 Education Association of the United States - 1881 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1881 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | Albion W. Tourgée - 1884 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | Missouri. General Assembly. Senate - 1885 - 944 pages
...State, and is the greatest safeguard against all crimes and public calamities. Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their...arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. Many deem the. accumulation of vast wealth in the hands of a few in our land as dangerous to the liberties... | |
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