“Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy.”

— Noam Chomsky

Chomsky on Miseducation, 1999 http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rgibson/rouge_forum/newspaper/fall2001/Chomsky.htm. <br class="br">Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999 <br class="br">Context: Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

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“Many grandparents carry three or four generations of history in their heads but don't talk about it because they have been ignored.”

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TIME interview (1977)
Context: Just look at the scores of thousands of housing tracts in this country, where only parents and children live. Think of the impact on these children who will grow up without close proximity to grandparents. There are certain things that a grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust — the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children are a little sharper for the lack of it. … I tell young people to go to the oldest members of their family and get as much oral history as possible. Many grandparents carry three or four generations of history in their heads but don't talk about it because they have been ignored. And when the young person starts doing this, the old are warmed to the cockles of their souls and will tell a grandchild everything they can muster.

“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

“I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: The Rosy Crucifixion II: Plexus (1953), p. 599

“So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.”

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[199808050415.VAA24026@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

“[Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively]
"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?"
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Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

“Israel is an embattled country. They rely very heavily on U. S. support. So they have developed a very sophisticated system of propaganda. They don't call it propaganda. They call it hasbarah. It is the only country I know of in the world that refers to propaganda as explanation. The Ministry of Propaganda is the Ministry of Explanation. The idea being that our position on everything is so obviously correct that if we only explain it to people, they will see that it is right.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Interview by Burton Levine in Shmate: A Journal of Progressive Jewish Thought, May 1988 http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/198805--.htm. <br class="br">Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s

“Democracy don't rule the world; you'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown

“You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache… or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!”

Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian

On men.
Monster (2004)

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