Matt Ridley: The Evolution of Everything |
Where people are baffled, they are often tempted to resort to mystical explanations.
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality.
Henry Louis Mencken(quoted)
The things that go well are largely unintended; the things that go badly are largely intended.