...modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading...

...State has no right to dictate opinions to its subjects. Moreover, as Mr. MU1 well puts it, " a general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ;" and he has before laid it down that, so far from this being desirable, diversity of individual character,...

...modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading...

...education of the people should be in State hands, I go as far as any one in deprecating. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation ; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading...

...when they are not otherwise obtainable. Mill, in his "Constitutional Liberty," says, — " A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...one another: and as the mould in which it casts them if that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood,...

...favor of compulsory education, but expresses himself against a general state-system of education as a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, we come to cases of state action, where " the question is not about restraining but about helping "...

...modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable im^ portauce, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing genera, tion ; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the...

...education of the people should be in State hands, I go as far as anyone in deprecating. ... A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading,...

...compel parents to give a certain amount of education to their children, he says (On Liberty): "A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...which pleases the predominant power in the government — in proportion as it is efficient and successful — it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading...

...his most famous books, long afterwards propounded his belief that any general system of education was a " mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another." 1 It would have puzzled him, I think, to find two more different minds than his father .and Thomas...