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“employers have resorted to requiring a college degree. They do this not for anything the employee may have learned in college but to ensure that he will be able to read and count, and will show up on time. It’s a mechanism, that’s all. It helps keep the government overseer off their backs, lest they exert a human judgment not approved by their betters. So”
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
“The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men “well-rounded,” like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom of the height and breadth and depth of human experience, including man’s mysterious encounter with his Creator. To”
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
“Nearly all the school subjects lay great stress on information. But literature makes its appeal to the heart as well as the intellect. Geography”
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
“Our motto instead is, “Work—or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty.” Turn up the noise.”
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
― Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
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Geneva Academy Book Club
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