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

- Edmund Barton

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and le…

- Edmund Barton

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 p…

- Edmund Barton

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 educat…

- Edmund Barton

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

- Edmund Barton

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

- Edmund Barton

A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.

- Edmund Barton

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 …

- Edmund Barton

Creating a nation requires the will of the people.

- Edmund Barton