John Taylor Gatto on School and State Authority
“Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?”
John Taylor Gatto
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Milton Friedman on Bureaucracy and Federal Agencies
“Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.”
Milton Friedman
“Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge” – John Taylor Gatto
“Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.”
John Taylor Gatto
Walter Lippmann on Myth, Truth, and Critical Thinking
“What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.”
Walter Lippmann
Milton Friedman Quote About Tax Increases
“Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay”
Milton Friedman
“Nobody Gives You an Education” – John Taylor Gatto
“Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.”
John Taylor Gatto
Change of Circumstances through Consciousness – Neville Goddard
“A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.”
Neville Goddard
Milton Friedman on Buying Votes with Voters’ Money
“Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.”
Milton Friedman
John Taylor Gatto on School Criticism and Grades
“The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.”
John Taylor Gatto
Umberto Eco on Belief and Doubt
“When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
Umberto Eco