Timid Teachers and Sham Authorities

"That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. From this high audacious duty the moderns are fleeing on every side; and the only excuse for them is ... that their modern philosophies are so half-baked and hypothetical that they cannot convince themselves enough to convince even a newborn babe."

G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, 'Authority the Unavoidable'

"Now I am concerned, first and last, to mainain that unless you can save the fathers, you cannot save the children; that at present we cannot save others, for we cannot save ourselves. We cannot teach citizenship if we are not citizens; we cannot free others if we have forgotten the appetite of freedom. Education is only truth in a state of transmission; and how can we pass on truth if it has never come into our hand?"

G. K. C., What's Wrong with the World, 'An Evil Cry'