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 Michael Deming for Congress 20??
I, Michael Deming,
might someday run again
for the U. S. House of Representatives, representing
the 7th Congressional District of Colorado.
**UNDER CONSTRUCTION**
My issues page here is under construction. There is a lot
to talk about. Some of the things on my mind are:
Great quotes on education (many thanks to Clyde Harkins):
"The
aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to
reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and
train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its
aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues,
and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their
purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up
majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their
everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible."
-- H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer,
and Critic
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H..L..Mencken.Quote.0BF4
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be
exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which
pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an
aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is
efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by
a natural tendency to one over the body."
-- John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Stuart.Mill.Quote.9453
"In the hands of the state, compulsory public education becomes a tool for
political control and manipulation -- a prime instrument for the thought
police of the society. And precisely because every child passes through the
same indoctrination process -- learning the same "official history," the same
"civic virtues," the same lessons of obedience and loyalty to the state -- it
becomes extremely difficult for the independent soul to free himself from the
straightjacket of the ideology and values the political authorities wish to
imprint upon the population under its jurisdiction. For the communists, it was
the class struggle and obedience to the Party and Comrade Stalin; for the
fascists, it was worship of the nation -- state and obedience to the Duce; for
the Nazis, it was race purity and obedience to the Fuhrer. The content has
varied, but the form has remained the same. Through the institution of
compulsory state education, the child is to be molded like wax into the shape
desired by the state and its educational elite. We should not believe that
because ours is a freer, more democratic society, the same imprinting
procedure has not occurred even here, in America. Every generation of
school-age children has imprinted upon it a politically correct ideology
concerning America's past and the sanctity of the role of the state in
society. Practically every child in the public school system learns that the
"robber barons" of the 19th century exploited the common working man; that
unregulated capitalism needed to be harnessed by enlightened government
regulation beginning in the Progressive era at the turn of the century; that
wild Wall Street speculation was a primary cause of the Great Depression; that
only Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal saved America from catastrophe; and that
American intervention in foreign wars has been necessary and inevitable, with
the United States government required to be a global leader and an occasional
world policeman."
-- Richard M. Eberling, (1950- ) Author, Professor of Economics. Source:
Introduction to 'Separating School & State: How to Liberate America's
Families' (Sheldon Richman, 1994)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Richard.Eberling.Quote.2E61
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