Richard Mitchell Quotes
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.
Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.
An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.