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Tag Name "Civics" (10)

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Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.
Ken Burns
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Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.
Richard Dreyfuss
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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.
Charles Evans Hughes
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Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.
Tim Kaine
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There's a great book by my friend Nate Garvis called Naked Civics that was very important in my development as someone with a social conscious and that has become, I guess, something of an activist.
Andrew Zimmern
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Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
Francine Prose
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It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?
Lewis Black
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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Roger Ebert
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I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.
Sandra Day O'Connor