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The Peace, Freedom & Prosperity Movement
July 15, 2009 at 03:38 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedOrganization under: -
The New York Times
July 14, 2009 at 07:31 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edited by Edward J. Wheeler, Current Opinion, Vol. LXII January - June (The Current Literature Publishing Company, New York, 1917) p. 195.Unblushing materialism finds its crowning triumph in the theory of the modern school. In the whole plan there is not a spiritual thought, not an idea that rises above the need of finding money for the pocket and food for the belly…It is a matter of instant inquiry, for very sober consideration, whether the General Education Board, indeed, may not with the immense funds at its disposal be able to shape to its will practically all the institutions in which the youth of the country are trained.
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General Education Board
July 14, 2009 at 07:24 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
General Education Board, Occasional Papers, No. 1 (General Education Board, New York, 1913) p. 6.In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 08, 2009 at 05:01 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson, John P. Foley, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London) p. 277, 278.Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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H. L. Mencken
July 08, 2009 at 04:00 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
The American Murcury Magazine (April, 1924).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.
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Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 07:01 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Stuart Ewenm PR!: A Social History of Spin (Basic Books, 1998) p. 34, 35.The duty of the higher strata of society — the cultivated, the learned, the expert, the intellectual — is therefore clear. They must inject moral and spiritual motives into public opinion.
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Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 06:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edward L. Bernays, Propoganda (1928) p. 47, 48.If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, the elite could control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it…just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline.
