Preface p. vii
The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)
Source: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 17
Source: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 145
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 4 “Iconoclastic means “I Can!”” (p. 106)
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: Every physician, shoemaker, mechanic or educator must know his shortcomings if he is to do his work and make his living. For some decades, you have begun to play a governing role on this earth. It is on your thinking and your actions that the future of humanity depends. But your teachers and masters do not tell you how you really think and are; nobody dares to voice the one criticism of you which could make you capable of governing your own fate. You are "free" only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.
Buckingham and Ross 1892, p. 120
His Character
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time", in The China Critic, Vol. III, no. 4 (23 January 1930), p. 81
Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 153
