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,... On Liberty - Page 190by John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading... | |
| India - 1860 - 532 pages
...State has no right to dictate opinions to its subjects. Moreover, as Mr. MU1 well puts it, " a general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ;" and he has before laid it down that, so far from this being desirable, diversity of individual character,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading... | |
| Great Britain - 1880 - 1118 pages
...education of the people should be in State hands, I go as far as any one in deprecating. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation ; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading... | |
| New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1877 - 714 pages
...when they are not otherwise obtainable. Mill, in his "Constitutional Liberty," says, — " A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...one another: and as the mould in which it casts them if that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood,... | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...favor of compulsory education, but expresses himself against a general state-system of education as a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, we come to cases of state action, where " the question is not about restraining but about helping "... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1878 - 98 pages
...modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable im^ portauce, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing genera, tion ; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the... | |
| 1885 - 478 pages
...education of the people should be in State hands, I go as far as anyone in deprecating. ... A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading,... | |
| James A. Conway - Education and state - 1890 - 72 pages
...compel parents to give a certain amount of education to their children, he says (On Liberty): "A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...which pleases the predominant power in the government — in proportion as it is efficient and successful — it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading... | |
| John M. Robertson - Humanists - 1891 - 275 pages
...his most famous books, long afterwards propounded his belief that any general system of education was a " mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another." 1 It would have puzzled him, I think, to find two more different minds than his father .and Thomas... | |
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