24 states now pursuing free speech bills to protect conservative speakers from left-wing bullies and liberal authoritarians 25 MARCH 2018

— Adolf Hitler: “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
— Nelson Mandela: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
— Epictetus: “Only the educated are free.”
— Thomas Jefferson: “A Nation cannot be both ignorant and free.”
— John F. Kennedy: “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
— Maximilien Robespierre: “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
— John Stuart Mill: “A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation [or today – teachers’ unions]; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.”
— Mark Twain: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.