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“We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.”
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“J'avais eu peur en effet de mourir dans les geôles colonialistes sans laisser à l'Algérie, à mes frères musulmans, une technique de renaissance, tant je les voyais sacrifier leurs meilleurs moyens et le meilleur de leur temps à des futilités. On verra comment le "patrimoine" algérien m'en récompensera.”
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“The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.”
― The Education Decree
― The Education Decree
“Leonard Schapiro, writing on Stalinism, warned us that “the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade. But to produce a uniform pattern of public utterances in which the first trace of unorthodox thought reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
― And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
― And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
“Unfortunately for the university, none of that information could make the slightest place for itself inside the circuits of my brain. I was looking for education, but all I found was heartless indoctrination. And indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.”
― Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
― Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
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