“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
Charles Handy
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves”
Ernest Dimnet
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good”
“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”
“The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
