“State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly alike one another…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 (via laliberty)
… Unless, indeed, when society in general is in so backward a state that it could not or would not provide for itself any proper institutions of education, unless the government undertook the task: then, indeed, the government may, as the less of two great evils, take upon itself the business of schools and universities…
- John Stuart Mill, two sentences later.
