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2025 April 04
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"Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary
to good government and the happiness of mankind,
schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." |
"A nation of well informed men
who have been taught to know and prize the rights
which God has given them cannot be enslaved.
It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." |
"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." |
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2025 April 03
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"We must win the common people in every corner.
This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools;
and by open, hearty behavior, show condescension,
popularity, and toleration of their prejudices,
which we shall at leisure root out and dispel." |
"We have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth … at a very early age. … This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing." |
“Give me four years to teach the children and
the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” |
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2025 April 02
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"The ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." |
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? ... The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be "undemocratic." ... Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma — Beelzebub, what a useful word! — by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. ... We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when "I'm as good as you" has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to over-top their fellows? And anyway the teachers — or should I say, nurses? — will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." |
"Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily
present itself to be graded and classified like meat?
No wonder school is compulsory." |
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2025 April 01
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount
of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." |
"You can never get enough of what you don't really need." |
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." |
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2025 March 31
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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." |
"Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism." |
"Respect for the truth is an acquired taste." |
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