George Orwell Quotes on Education
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Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.
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But is it really necessary, in 1947, to teach children to use expressions like 'native' and 'Chinaman'?
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.