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On Liberty - Page 190
by John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 207 pages
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Political Socialism: A Remonstrance. A Collection of Papers by Members of ...

Mark Hayler Judge - 1908 - 208 pages
...modes of conduct involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading...
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Harvard Classics: Volume 25

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 pages
...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...
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John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 508 pages
...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...
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John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 488 pages
...importance, diversity of education. A general^ State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to i be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which...aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a.\ despotism over the mind, leading...
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NCEA Bulletin, Volumes 7-9

National Catholic Educational Association - 1910 - 1612 pages
...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,...
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The Province of the State

Roland Knyvet Wilson - 1911 - 360 pages
...modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes...
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Political Ideals, Their Nature and Development: An Essay

Cecil Delisle Burns - 1915 - 330 pages
...other. The tendency to exalt the sphere of government' con1 Ibid., in. fine. 1 Ibid., oh. v. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; but one system might be maintained by the State as a sort of model to the many voluntary institutions....
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Education According to Some Modern Masters

Charles Franklin Thwing - 1916 - 312 pages
...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...
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The Science of Ethics: Special ethics

Michael Cronin - 1917 - 712 pages
...modes of conduct involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding...which pleases the predominant power in the government in the proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind leading...
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Truancy and Non-attendance in the Chicago Schools: A Study ..., Volume 14988182

Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge - 1917 - 492 pages
...freedom which should characterize liberal education. John Stuart Mill, for example, wrote that a "general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another."2 Although the issue has never been drawn in this way in the United States and although the...
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