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“The dark side of the Welfare State midwifed by Beatrice Webb and the Fabian socialists is not its superficial purpose of being kind, but its intention of killing with kindness, and thus protecting the interests of the better people, non-violently.”
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
“It is natural businessmen should seek to influence the enactment and administration of laws, national and international, and that they should try to control education.”
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
“the incredible inventiveness of the American people, a natural by-product of three factors: an open-source learning tradition; a heterogeneous, mixed-age society which didn’t exclude the young from full participation; and a government presence without heavy-handedness.”
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
“Souls weren’t something one was born with. No, I knew that now. Souls, and the resulting power, they were the sum of one’s pain, one’s joy, one’s laughter, and one’s wanting. All captured and distilled and expelled upon death.”
― Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon
― Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon
“the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799. These resolutions of the Kentucky legislature, in reaction to the Federalists’ Alien and Sedition Acts, were secretly written by Thomas Jefferson, who was at the time John Adams’ vice president. They declared that individual states could not only secede, but could also nullify any federal law of which they did not approve.”
― Jack Hinson's One-Man War
― Jack Hinson's One-Man War
Rainer’s 2025 Year in Books
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