GOVERNMENT & THE STATE
PROBLEMS
Government Schools
Contrary to conventional wisdom, mathematics and science students who have teachers with emergency credentials do no worse than students whose teachers have standard teaching credentials, all else being equal.
BREWER, DOMINIC J. & GOLDHABER, DAN D., “Better Teachers, Better Schools,” Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
[P]opular education...its manifest tendency is to diffuse popular commonplaces, to fasten them on the mind at the time when it is most easily impressed, and thus to stereotype average opinion.
MAINE, SIR HENRY SUMNER, The Prospects of Popular Government
A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.
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.