"A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation in proportion as it is efficient, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body."~ John Stuart Mill, from On Liberty
[Hat tip Andy Clarkson and C. Bradley Thompson]
Pertinent - given that Putin is pushing his war propaganda into all Russian schools right now. Closer to home te tiriti partnership is being cemented as the highest value accross the compulsory school curriculum.
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