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"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."
By: | John Stuart Mill (more quotes by John Stuart Mill or books by/about John Stuart Mill) |
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist | |
Categories: | Aristocracy, Compulsion, Conformity, Corruption, Democracy, Despotism, Education, Monarchy, Patriotism, Propaganda, Serfdom |
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