Bill Cooper Quote: Social Inequality and Education

„The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintaining some measure of social order, peace, and tranquility for the ruling upper class.“

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Bill Cooper was an American nonfiction author, radio journalist, and public speaker.

The quote critically describes the systematic disadvantage of the lower class through poor education as a means to maintain social hierarchies.


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Milton William “Bill” Cooper was born on May 6, 1943, and died on November 5, 2001, in Eagar, Arizona. He first served in the U.S. Air Force and later joined the U.S. Navy, where he stated that he commanded a patrol boat during the Vietnam War. After his honorable discharge in 1975, he worked in education and became known as an author, radio journalist, and speaker.

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