What passes for an education system today can't possibly be what Garfield was referring to. The one we have now needs to be flushed with a great many other aspects of psychotic Government.

Depends on what he is being educated "for".

Great Question!

The entrenched bureaucracy, unions and closed door government add up to one big faceless psychopath that thinks we're sheep to be fleeced.

This quote is a reference to why Democracy is a joke, Democracy is the interests of the many against the few. Ergo, the few are not represented. And Waffler you really should stop drinking so early in the day.

The quote is dead on. We "taxpayers" are treated as inventory to be fleeced at will. Not to mention that the people of Africa have had "pharmaceutical trials" done on them as though they were lab rats. here again we see "Big Pharma" working with "Big Government" operating as sociopaths.

Waffler what is YOUR point? What does "mob" have to do with this quote at all? Or Hitler for that matter?

Liberals have the highest IQ? Well I guess that becomes meaningless when they are completely devoid of any morality whatsoever... "Educated idiots"? Sure looks like it.

Actually we need to scorn Communist Liberals and Obamunistas for being the anti-Americans that they are. Thank God, that patriotic groups like the multi-racial American Tea Party are bringing freedom and Liberty to the forefront once again. Death to Commies. :) God knows we've given enough blood to fight them...

5 stars for the quote and 5 more to each of the commenters above.

Not mistake proof Waffler. Simply men who had just fought to vanquish tyranny and establish a nation where individual rights reigned supreme. Moral men who enshrined liberty as the most basic of tenets. But...you wouldn't understand...

Hey Greg, my mistake. You're right we need to look out for each other and our weaker citizens. I find that very difficult to do after I've been tax raped. I'm still an advocate of private philanthropy and I believe that people are basicalyl good at heart and will do right by others if given a chance. The government reduces us to a desperate mob though and needs to be reduced in size by a factor of at least 10.

Greg, you're obviously in England. Pretty much the ultimate nanny state, so I understand your perspective. But in America, the philosophy is that local problems should be taken care of locally, not by an all powerful leviathan government that rules our every move, watches our finances, disarms us and puts us under surveillance, all the while leaving us to a life of desperate misery and relying on "them" for everything....like in England. Unfortunately we're heading that way too...Sad.

Actually cal, the government wants obedient workers / taxpaying sheep...it wants control of everything you do. A self destructive and sociopathic policy to be sure.

The possibility of doing your own thinking?

Waffler one word..."twisted".

I'm reminded of a bumper sticker which simply stated: "Question Authority." And we must...

Mike, are you aware of the "BRICS" event that has been taking shape? Brazil, Russia, India, China and S. Africa are no longer trading in US Dollars (The world's Reserve Currency). It begins...

Agreed Robken...and that would be thanks to Alexander Hamilton, the first (central) Bank of the United States, and the seed of Bankster / Government corruption that was begun almost as the ink was drying on the Constitution...he should have been hung as the first traitor to the nation.

Once people realize that they have been trained and not educated, they will take the first steps towards personal liberty. "Education" happens outside the schools...

Let's take "Socialism" as an example. Without exception it will (eventually) fail every time. You'd think we would learn... Restore the Republic.

Reston as always can't see beyond the aquarium he lives in. And Waffler, Nothing wrong with social activism. I speak to people who are socially active all the time...their just not "socialists". They're not "thieves".

This covers a lot of ground and is highly subject to interpretation. I have met people who speak of such things. They are slowly opting out of participation in Big Brother Government on all levels and establishing simpler ways of life.

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." ~ Vladimir Illich Lenin

Every now and then, curiosity and intelligence win out over indoctrination.