Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Institution

Let the will of the state act, then, instead of that of the individual. Let an institution be created which shall have for its object to keep correct doctrines before the attention of the people, to reiterate them perpetually, and to teach them to the young, having at the same time power to prevent contrary doctrines from being taught, advocated, or expressed.

--Charles Pierce, article, "The Fixation Of Belief"
Popular Science Monthly, November, 1877

Quoted in John Taylor Gatto, "Weapons Of Mass Instruction", p. 172

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