EDMUND BARTON

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

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.

We ought not to cripple them [the Australian States] using our power of direct taxation, unless under the stress of some great emergency; we ought to leave them free to enlarge their revenues by direct taxation [income and property taxes], seeing that they will have no power to resort to customs or excise duties if they want additional revenue.

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.

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

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.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

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.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

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.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

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.

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.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

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.

We ought not to cripple them [the Australian States] using our power of direct taxation, unless under the stress of some great emergency; we ought to leave them free to enlarge their revenues by direct taxation [income and property taxes], seeing that they will have no power to resort to customs or excise duties if they want additional revenue.

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.