Thomas James, polymath

Professionally, I am a sound designer. At all other times, I am a pianist, composer, photographer, philosopher and libertarian. Among other things.

—A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
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    I try explaining this to people all the time. Important stuff.
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    In other words, state education is a means for mass indoctrination.
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