P

“But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.”
― Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man

“Vladimir Lenin made it clear that the true goal of socialism is communism. He would know better than most of us.”
― Kathy Barnette, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America

“Adding the word 'Democratic' to the word 'Socialism' doesn't change the fact that it's still 'Socialism'.”
― Kathy Barnette, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America

“I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic — it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling