"In just the measure that education aims to develop the individual with independence of judgment rather than to indoctrinate him with tradition and custom and official dogma, to that degree it separates him from the mass and is successful insofar as it emancipates his mind from the tyranny of herd opinion."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Everett Dean Martin, The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 17
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Indoctrination
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Indoctrination
10 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Indoctrination →
Related Quotes
"How do students come by the opinions they hold, especially those acquired in the course of schooling? They have adopt…"
"My guess is that you would find that the intellectual elite is the most heavily indoctrinated sector. It's their role…"
"For those who stubbornly seek freedom around the world, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand t…"
"Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not …"
"We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination."
"We may distinguish both true and false needs. “False” are those which are superimposed upon the individual by particu…"
"The egregious error of adult educators is to define our function solely as one of fostering behavior change and to ac…"
"What are our schools for if not for indoctrination against communism?"
"And this is why we must throw everyone into the brine of socialism, so that the hide of capitalism will peel away and…"
"Religion, as far as I could see, was chiefly concerned with “getting into Heaven.” A stockpile of prayers and could e…"