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.
original source: The Astonishing Hypothesis
Henry Louis MenckenAmerican author, criticist 12 September 1880 — 29 January 1956 |
quoted by Matt Ridley in The Evolution of Everything |
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