![[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-erroneous-assumption-is-to-the-effect-that-the-aim-of-public-education-is-t.jpg)
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Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last Chamfort
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Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it. Maurice Cheeks
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A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. Bernard Beckett
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Whatever we know without inference is mental.
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I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person. Cathy Moriarty
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Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you. Bethenny Frankel
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The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. Deepak Chopra
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