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Your Quotes for 3 September 2005 - Education Revisited

Back to School Week at Quotes of the Day has, so far, lauded all the parts of the education process that formally restarts for millions in the next few weeks. Long time readers have doubtless been expecting a day of rebuttal, given how poorly I personally responded to the formal education process. So today my cynical side will let through a few mal mots.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
     - Alexandre Dumas, père, 1802 - 1870

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
     - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
     - Bertrand Russell, 1872 - 1970

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.
     - Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
     - John Maynard Keynes, 1883 - 1946

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
     - Glenn T. Seaborg

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