...therefore the 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,...

...education only when they are not otherwise obtainable. Mill, in his "Constitutional Liberty," says, — " A general State education is a mere contrivance for...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 "...

...opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable im^ portauce, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for...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...

...State to 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...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...

...instruction, guidance and assistance from without, rather than to rely upon their own expedients. , . . A general state education is a mere contrivance for...which pleases the predominant power in the government, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism of the mind, leading by...

...working of that despotism which John Stuart Mill feared in all proposals for general State education as a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another), I pass on to the effect of the old scholasticism upon the youth of today, which I believe is turning...

...opinions and modes of conduct involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general state education is a mere contrivance for...them is that which pleases the predominant power in government * ' or the majority of the existing generation ' * it establishes a despotism over the mind,...

...opinions and 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 exactlv iike one another ; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant...