Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.
Bertrand RussellThe white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.
Bertrand RussellI believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.
Bertrand RussellScientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.
Bertrand Russell