Ben Sasse Quotes

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused throughout a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

… law by itself can only address the symptoms, but education can reach deep into our heart, which is far more effective to set the society on the right course. So, education is the fundamental solution.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

The fate of our country, and hence of the world, depends on the degree to which the American people achieve liberal education. It is a process…of placing in the hands of the American people the means of continuing and revitalizing Western civilization, for the sake of the West and for the sake of all mankind.

The study of history is in the truest sense an education, and a training for political life.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

The main hope of a state lies in the proper education of its youth.

By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.

Devote that intelligent mind of yours to the problems of the state

We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.

There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding … as we are ourselves.

I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.

I try to tell a lot of stories to make my students aware that the world is a very cool place with many problems that need solving, and that they all can help solve them.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.