...give a certain amount of education to their children, he says (On Liberty): "A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly...which pleases the predominant power in the government — in proportion as it is efficient and successful — it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading...

...his most famous books, long afterwards propounded his belief that any general system of education was a " mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another." 1 It would have puzzled him, I think, to find two more different minds than his father .and Thomas...

...involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly...as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established...

...assistance from without, rather than to rely upon their own expedients. , . . A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly...which pleases the predominant power in the government, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism of the mind, leading by...

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...working of that despotism which John Stuart Mill feared in all proposals for general State education as a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another), I pass on to the effect of the old scholasticism upon the youth of today, which I believe is turning...

...unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance foi moulding people to be exactly like one another: and...as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established...

...involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly...them is that which pleases the predominant power in government * ' or the majority of the existing generation ' * it establishes a despotism over the mind,...

...of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactlv iike one another ; and as the mould in which it casts them...majority of the existing generation, in proportion astaken for the motto of that work the words " centre la fureur de gouverneur, la plus funeste maladie...

...is a chief factor of such individuality. In the sagacious words of Mill, " A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly...as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body." 2 2. THE STATE AND RELIGION...