Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said something about how we're educating them to keep them from our throats. If you don't educate them, what we call 'education,' they're going to take control -- 'they' being what Alexander Hamilton called the 'great beast,' namely the people. The anti-democratic thrust of opinion in what are called democratic societies is really ferocious. And for good reason. Because the freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I t…

Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in…

There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a firs…

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

Historians are the most powerful and dangerous members of any society. They must be watched carefully... They can spoil everything.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.