“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Johann Goethe
I’ve long considered public education to be the lynchpin of public control by the elites. As long as most folks subscribe to public education, there is no hope for true freedom in this land.
Hell of a thing to realize you've been lied to most of your life.
Jacob Hornberger, Future of Freedom Foundation:
"When I discovered libertarianism in my late 20s, more than 40 years ago, the biggest revelation for me was that I was not actually a free person. All my life — especially during my years in public schools and state-supported college and law school — I had been indoctrinated with the notion that I was a free person living in a free society. The words of country singer Lee Greenwood’s song God Bless the USA — “And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free” — reflected my mindset. I embodied the words of Johann Goethe: “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
'And then I discovered libertarianism, which enabled me to see that I wasn’t free at all and that I wasn’t living in a free society. I realized I had been lied to all my life. It was at that moment that I decided that I wanted to live as a genuinely free person. It must be a tremendously exhilarating feeling to be genuinely free. Once I discovered the truth, I became determined to do everything I could to achieve freedom."
John Taylor Gatto tried.
“This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.”
10 Quotes from the Education System's Most Infamous Critic - Intellectual Takeout
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. 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 put 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.”
―H.L. Mencken
Great post Steve