Friday, February 24, 2012

is this familiar?

he had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way by which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust  and reverence, and a child is not made a man, but kept a child.   
- walden, visitors, thoreau

authoritarianism in a nutshell.

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