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Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

~Edmund Barton

Topics: Creating Nation People Requires Will

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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

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Topics: All The Difference Alone Between Difference Hand Letting Other Public Public School School School System System Them Up

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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

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I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

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Topics: Education Further Our Say Should System

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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

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Topics: Education Exercise Extension Franchise Great Invested Jury Must People Powers Qualify Rightly State Suffrage Universal Which Wide

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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

~Edmund Barton

Topics: Any Connection Fort Given Instruction Irish Model National Pupil Religious School Special Street System Then Two Which Years

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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

~Edmund Barton

Topics: Demand Duty Educate Education People Right State

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Politician

Born: January 18th, 1849

Died: January 7th, 1920

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