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Type: Politician Quotes Category: Australian Politician Quotes Date of Birth: January 18, 1849 Date of Death: January 7, 1920 Nationality: Australian Find on Amazon: Edmund Barton Related Authors: Julie Bishop Pauline Hanson John Hewson Malcolm Fraser Joseph Cook Guy Green Stephen Martin |
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
Edmund Barton Creating a nation requires the will of the people! Edmund Barton I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. Edmund Barton I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. Edmund Barton If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. Edmund Barton It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. Edmund Barton The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. Edmund Barton |
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