Education should be a fundamental human right.
Secure for young people the right to education and to full-time work.
The greatest interest at stake is not that of the copyright holders or the database companies, rather it is the interest a free and open society has in ensuring that everyone can learn the facts, regardless of their economic background. We should regard our nation’s involvement in the knowledge of its citizens … as the highest and most precious intellectual property we can ever protect.
The right to an education is still not present in our Constitution.
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
Every child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe.
We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.
The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year.
I believe you have a birthright to a good education.
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
