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Richard Mitchell Quotes: Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
         

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.


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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.



There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.



Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

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.

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.





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Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading if it is the result of misfortune and not deliberately imposed by authority.

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