Quotes About Indoctrination 3

“Schools train you to be ignorant with style […] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re going to be alright […] So I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming up.”
― Frank Zappa

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool”
― Plato

“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future.”
― Maria Montessori

“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.”
― Jeffrey Tucker

“After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324”
― Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

“Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.”
― Stanley Milgram

“The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and man never went to the moon.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”
― Stefan Molyneux, Against The Gods?

“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place, they were educated to believe it, and they would have believed anything else in the same manner. There are also many who have been so enthusiastically enraptured by what they conceived to be the infinite love of God to man, in making a sacrifice of himself, that the vehemence of the idea has forbidden and deterred them from examining into the absurdity and profaneness of the story.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.”
― Jeffrey Tucker

“School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.”
― John Taylor Gatto

“Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
― Friedrich Hayek

“Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.”
― Peter Gray

“Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.”
― Joaquim Nabuco

“It’s been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.”
― J.E.B. Spredemann

“Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.”
― Lucretia Mott

“A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.”
― Joseph Devlin, How to Speak and Write Correctly

“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe he or she has a “black heart” – seeing the abuser holding an animal heart and then feeling severe chest pain while it is supposedly inserted. In “brain transplants”, the brain of an abuser or of a despised animal such as a rate is supposedly put into a child. Children are told that they are demons or monsters or aliens, or internal copies of an abuser whose “seed” has been implanted by rape.
Ch29, p324”
― Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

“You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can’t make him swallow it.”
― Marty Rubin

“The process of spreading a philosophy by means of free discussion among thinking adults is long and complex. From Plato to the present, it has been the dream of social planners to circumvent this process and, instead, to inject a controversial ideology directly into the plastic, unformed minds of children—by means of seizing a country’s educational system and turning it into a vehicle for indoctrination. In this way one may capture an entire generation without intellectual resistance, in a single coup d’école.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Ominous Parallels

“Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.”
― Marty Rubin

“We are born free, but are taught to obey orders.”
― Marty Rubin

“We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it ― so, atheism is the default position. Although some children are not indoctrinated with a specific religion before the age of reason, there are many more who are.”
― David G. McAfee, Mom, Dad, I’m an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer

“No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.”
― A.S. Neill

“But aliens? There are TV shows about them. There are books and movies and more. The media indoctrinates you to them until people are so desensitized they don’t flinch at seeing aliens on TV or having their children buy plastic versions for a quarter.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“I always hear parents talking about how outraged they are because their kid saw a boob or something like that on TV. I never hear anyone say that they’re outraged because a cartoon character in a commercial that aired during a children’s television program told them it was healthy to eat a bowl of chocolate and marshmallows for breakfast. If I had kids, I’d be outraged about that.”
― Ian McClellan