As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.
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