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" A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government... "
The Contemporary Review - Page 549
1880
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Calcutta Review, Volume 34

India - 1860 - 532 pages
...therefore the State has no right to dictate opinions to its subjects. Moreover, as Mr. MU1 well puts it, " a general State education is a mere contrivance for...moulding people to be exactly like one another ;" and he has before laid it down that, so far from this being desirable, diversity of individual character,...
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Parliamentary Debates

New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1877 - 714 pages
...education only when they are not otherwise obtainable. Mill, in his "Constitutional Liberty," says, — " A general State education is a mere contrivance for...one another: and as the mould in which it casts them if that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood,...
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Political Science: Or, The State Theoretically and Practically ..., Volume 1

Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...favor of compulsory education, but expresses himself against a general state-system of education as a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, we come to cases of state action, where " the question is not about restraining but about helping "...
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The Respective Rights and Duties of Family, State and Church in Regard to ...

James A. Conway - Education and state - 1890 - 72 pages
...State to compel parents to give a certain amount of education to their children, he says (On Liberty): "A general State education is a mere contrivance for...which pleases the predominant power in the government — in proportion as it is efficient and successful — it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading...
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Modern Humanists

John M. Robertson - Humanists - 1891 - 275 pages
...his most famous books, long afterwards propounded his belief that any general system of education was a " mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another." 1 It would have puzzled him, I think, to find two more different minds than his father .and Thomas...
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Why Government at All?: A Philosophical Examination of the Principles of ...

William Henry Van Ornum - Anarchism - 1892 - 384 pages
...instruction, guidance and assistance from without, rather than to rely upon their own expedients. , . . A general state education is a mere contrivance for...which pleases the predominant power in the government, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism of the mind, leading by...
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The Alumni Bulletin

Universities and colleges - 1915 - 680 pages
...working of that despotism which John Stuart Mill feared in all proposals for general State education as a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another), I pass on to the effect of the old scholasticism upon the youth of today, which I believe is turning...
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Debates of the Senate: Débats du Sénat

Canada. Parliament. Senate - Canada - 1895 - 940 pages
...opinions and modes of conduct involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general state education is a mere contrivance for...them is that which pleases the predominant power in government * ' or the majority of the existing generation ' * it establishes a despotism over the mind,...
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Special Reports on Educational Subjects, Volume 3

Great Britain. Board of Education - Education - 1898 - 730 pages
...opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactlv iike one another ; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 166

Literature, Modern - 1906 - 748 pages
...opinions and modes of conduct involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leaning...
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