Edward Bernays: Difference between Propaganda and Education

„The only difference between ‘propaganda’ and ‘education,’ really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don’t believe in is propaganda.“

Edward BernaysEdward Bernays explains the difference between propaganda and education as a matter of perspective and belief.
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Edward L. Bernays was an American pioneer in public relations and mass communication. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern PR industry.

Edward Bernays describes the fine line between propaganda and education, depending on perspective and belief.


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Edward Louis Bernays (1891–1995) was an Austrian-American public relations consultant and author. He is considered the father of public relations and developed techniques for manipulating public opinion. Bernays combined psychology with advertising and greatly influenced modern marketing and communication practices.

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"In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse." Edward Bernays
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"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens." Henry Louis Mencken
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"Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority." Edward Bernays
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"In regard to propaganda, the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions." Aldous Huxley
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