I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education.
Noam ChomskyIf you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
Noam ChomskyThe basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.
Noam ChomskyPeople are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.
Noam Chomsky