Nicolás Maduro (1962) 53rd President of Venezuela
President Maduro's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts), 26 September 2018
Source: The Modern Rack (1889), Ch. XV: Four Reasons for Total Prohibition of Vivisection, pp. 223-224
Nicolás Maduro (1962) 53rd President of Venezuela
President Maduro's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts), 26 September 2018
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) author and editor
Source: The God of the Machine (1943), p. 258
Han Fei (-279–-232 BC) Chinese philosopher
國無常強,無常弱。奉法者強則國強,奉法者弱則國弱。
Source: "On Having Standards", in Han Feizi: Basic Writings (2003)
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1920s–1950s, 4D Timelock (1928)
Context: There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible. Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc. Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
Noam Chomsky book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Source: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Concluding Remarks
Context: Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Can anybody fall to make the inference what the practical result will be? If there is, as we admit, a public sentiment among you, men of honor, justice and humanity, is there not also another kind of public sentiment among the ruffian, the brutal and debased? And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world?
“I cannot ridicule their every idea but in most things my vote is against the education system.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
शिक्षा (Education)
“To free education for all. … We seek to build an education system that is open to all.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)
Context: The foundation of Scotland's success - our great intellectual, social and economic flourishing - was our commitment to education. To free education for all.... We seek to build an education system that is open to all. A system that will not just benefit our economy - but will help to strengthen Scotland's entire civic and intellectual life. That is why we place such strong emphasis on ethics and values.
Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) British philosopher
As quoted in A Modern Introduction to Logic (1930), p. 198.