| Ernest Scott - 1920 - Liczba stron: 370
...enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders. An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. — Adam Smith. Education is the first remedy for the barbarism which has... | |
| Reinhold Niebuhr - 2001 - Liczba stron: 324
...of that hope, probably unconscious, is to be found in Adam Smith's defense of universal education: "An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than a stupid one. They feel themselves each individually more respectable and more likely to gain the respect... | |
| Barry Alexander Kosmin, Ariela Keysar - 2006 - Liczba stron: 328
...assigned according to qualifications, such as college diplomas. In 1776 Adam Smith postulated that "an instructed and intelligent people . . . are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant stupid one."' The extension of this in the meritocratic atmosphere of the United States... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1903 - Liczba stron: 566
...no doubt as to the wisdom of providing, by public effort, for the education of the common people : " An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one." But he threw the weight of his great authority against the state organization,... | |
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