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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams
Education, Freedom, Knowledge
'A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law' (1765)

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

John Adams
Education, School, Squares
John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence”

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams
Education, Character, Mean
John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.219, Penguin

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams
Education, Philosophy, War
John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

John Adams
Education, Mother, Children
John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.75, Penguin

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

John Adams
Education, Wisdom, Reading
John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.131

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

John Adams
Education, Mind, Superstitions
"John Adams: Quotes & Facts". Book by Blago Kirov, 2016.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams
Inspiring, Education, Book
John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

John Adams
Education, Writing, America

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

John Adams
Education, Money, Memorable
John Adams (2016). “Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787”, p.218, Harvard University Press

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

John Adams
Education, Inspirational Life, Men

The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.

John Adams
Education, Children, Distance
John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.168

The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.

John Adams
Education, War, Taken

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

John Adams
Education, Men, Differences
John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

John Adams
Education
John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.463

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

John Adams
Education, Wise, Learning
John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.284