martin luther king jrs dream wasnt about himself, it was about the children of this country he loved and gave his life for. here is a quote of his that has only five references on the entire internet(did someone say we were free?). 5! and you have to damn near have the entire sentence written out in quotations to find those with google. try it and see.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

- Martin Luther King

its my favorite quote of his. it is so raw and so true that few have the guts to view it, let alone contemplate it.

i could go on and on about how little is really understood about king. hell, he is not even misunderstood that much, but people are simply ignorant of him almost to a word. they are left to think whatever they want thus perpetuating his legend upon millions of individual myths that have nothing to do with reality, totally obscuring the man and his message. pretty slick trick if you ask me.

speaking of education, which isnt happening today because school is out, here are some other quotes for your enlightenment.


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State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly alike one another; ... 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.

- John Stuart Mill (1859)

Maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

- Former Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos

The basic tool for manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you control the meaning of a word, you control the persons who have to use it.

- Philip K. Dick

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call in enemy nations 'state indoctrination.'

- Jonathan Kozol (1990)

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

- Nietzsche

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children.

- Democrat National Platform (1892)

We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

- F. W. Nietzsche (1889)

When education is not public we no longer have the ability to control what is taught and what is not taught.
- Lee Berg, NEA, (CTA Equity and Human Rights Conference, 1998)

Free education for all children in public schools.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, "Communist Manifesto," 1848

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

- Paul Simon, "Kodachrome"

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

- Benjamin Disraeli (1874)(trapper - boy thats a guy who would know!)

You contend that I am wrong to teach my son science and philosophy; I believe you are wrong to teach yours Greek and Latin. Let us both follow the dictate of our conscience. Let us allow the law of responsibility to operate for our families. It will punish the one who is wrong. Let us not call in human law; it could well punish the one who is not wrong.

- Frederic Bastiat

[C]hildren are not a resource for the state.

- Colorado School Board, December 2000, on the Federal "school-to-work" program.

[Government] would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood

- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

[T]he result has been school systems that treat children as units to be processed into particular shapes and dropped into slots roughly congruent with the status of their parents.

- Michael Katz (1968)

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

- George Santayana (1863-1952)

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind... Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.

- Thomas Jefferson, writing to his nephew Peter Carr (1785). (Encyclopedia of T. Jefferson, 318 (Foley, Ed., reissued 1967))

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

- Robert Heinlein

Educate and inform the mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

- Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787 (first two sentences); - Thomas Jefferson to P.S. Dupont de Nemours, April 24, 1816 (last sentence).

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Education is useless without the Bible.

- Noah Webster

It takes a village to raise a police snitch.

- Ann Coulter

Parents have a natural and inalienable right to educate their children, publicly and privately as they see fit, and that right should be recognized and encouraged.

- Ronald Reagan

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain

Parents give up their rights when they drop their children off at public school.

- Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon, Texas, 1996