Henry Peter Brougham on the Case for Free, Independent, Secular, and Public Education in One Sentence

“Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”

Henry Peter Brougham in a Speech to the House of Commons (1828)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.