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The Death Of Democracy Is Not Likely To Be An Assassination From Ambush.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), "Great Books"
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchi...
There are only two kinds of books--good books and the others.
The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. -- Edward Abbey...
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchi...
Did you know that married men live longer than single men?
So, if you want to die a slow death, get married!!! -- Dave Maynard...
Keeping freedom safe from democracy
A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
-- Dixy Lee Ray, 1977, quoted from "Loose Talk...
I used to suffer from apathy.....now I can't be bothered!