A Quote by Brad Henry
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.
The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.
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We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.
It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.
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