Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-05-09 May 9, 2024Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.~ Josef StalinEducation should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.~ Johann Gottlieb FichteEducation... now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and 'fans,' driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves.~ John Holt May 8, 2024In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation’s moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting – all these will be used as a means to this end.~ Adolf HitlerTeachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.~ Bernhard RustPlace the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.~ J. Gresham Machen May 7, 2024The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.~ PlutarchA teacher is never a giver of truth -- he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.~ Bruce LeeThink! It ain't illegal 'yet.'~ George Clinton May 6, 2024Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.~ James MonroeWhat's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.~ Bertrand RussellThe purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.~ Peter McWilliams May 3, 2024I claim for the nation an education that depends only on the State, because children of the State must be raised by members of the State.~ Louis-René de Caradeuc de La ChalotaisWe must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.~ Communist Party Education Workers CongressTHE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents' sending children to the government to be educated.~ Neal Boortz Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print