[P]rosperous children are more susceptible than others to the effects of schooling, because they are promised more lifelong comfort and security for yielding wholly:
Critical judgment disappears … for in no way can there ever be collective critical judgment …. The individual can no longer judge for himself because he inescapably relates his thoughts to the entire complex of values and prejudices established by propaganda. … [H]e is given ready-made judgments ….
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Perhaps you’re a willing accomplice to [John Dewey and the Rockefellers’ vision of proper social order]. Certainly you are if your own child has been rewarded with a “gifted and talented” label by your local school.
