Today's Quotes - Education Socialism

Don't underestimate the power and the intentions of those educating your children.

"Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down."
-- Ellwood P. Cubberley
Dean of the Stanford University School of Education


"We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause."
-- Horace Mann
first secretary of education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts


"[T]he child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher."
-- John Swett
Superintendent of California Public School System (1860s)

"When school children start paying union dues,
that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."
-- Albert Shanker
(1928-1997) former president of the American Federation of Teachers

"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
-- William T. Harris
U.S. Commissioner of Education
Source: 1889

"I want to make one thing clear. This war against our constitution is not being
fought way off in Madagascar or in Mandalay. It is being fought here—in our
schools, our colleges, our churches, our women’s clubs. It is being fought with
our money, channeled through the State Department. It is being fought
twenty-four hours a day—while we remain asleep. How many of you Senators know
what the UN is doing to change the teaching of the children in your own home
town? The UN is at work there, every day and night, changing the teachers,
changing the teaching materials, changing the very words and tones—changing all
the essential ideas which we imagine our schools are teaching to our young
folks. How in the name of Heaven are we to sit here, approve these programs,
appropriate our own people’s money—for such outrageous “orientation” of our own
children, and of the men and women who teach our children, in this Nation’s
schools?"
-- William Jenner, Senator
Source: Congressional Record (1952)


"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 dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an
aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is
efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by
a natural tendency to one over the body."
-- John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
Source: On Liberty