“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
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good”
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