Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state.
Category: education
Progressive mind-control
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Politically-correct education
Every generation of school-age children has imprinted upon it a politically correct ideology concerning America’s past and the sanctity of the role of the state in society. Practically every child in the public school system learns that the ‘robber barons’ of the 19th century exploited the common working man; that unregulated capitalism needed to be harnessed by enlightened government regulation beginning in the Progressive era at the turn of the century; that Wild Wall Street speculation was a primary cause of the Great Depression; that only Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal saved America from catastrophe; and that American intervention in foreign wars has been necessary and inevitable, with the United States government required to be a global leader and an occasional world policeman.
Control
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
A peek into the future
Disasters waiting to happen: Low tech people operating high tech equipment.
Education is a weapon
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Artificial stupidity
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
Totalitarian liberals
The totalitarian mindset behind the liberal vision shows through in innumerable ways. There are no institutions in America where free speech is more severely restricted than in our politically correct colleges and universities, dominated by liberals.
The ignorance of the educated
Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don’t know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
Fantasyland
Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.