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> [ “\[The public school system is\] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/the-public-school-system-is-usually-a-twelve-year-sentence-of-mind/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

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## More by Walter Karp

> [“Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/since-the-civil-war-the-most-unruly-the-most-independent-the-most/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [ What chiefly governs the \[U.S.\] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/what-chiefly-governs-the-u-s-military-budget-is-the-need-to-spend/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [ “\[The public school system is\] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/the-public-school-system-is-usually-a-twelve-year-sentence-of-mind/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/the-military-budget-is-simply-an-enormous-pork-barrel-of-special/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/there-is-nothing-puzzling-about-america-s-gratuitously-aggressive/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/since-free-men-cannot-judge-for-themselves-what-endangers-their/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/by-their-subjugation-of-the-press-the-political-powers-in-america/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

> [The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-karp/the-most-esteemed-journalists-are-precisely-the-most-servile-for-it/)

[Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-karp/)

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