“We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.” IfsShouldStatesWould BeAbleValuesInterestJusticeEqualAuthorityAskingDespotismEqual Justice Author:Richard Mitchell
“In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.” DoneProblemGovernmentPoliticalValuesTakenIgnoranceStrangeAreasRootsMethodInstitutionsEducationalAccomplishArrangementsThings DoneStrange ThingsIlliteracyGreat ValueThoughtlessness Author:Richard Mitchell
“The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.” GivingChildrenFeelingsGovernmentValuesSupportEmotionalCitizensOur ChildrenResponseAgencyManipulationSentimentsIdeologicalInfamousGovernment Agencies Author:Richard Mitchell
