State of education
“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, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind . An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exists at all, as one among many competing.”
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).
