Richard Mitchell Quotes

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• Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he…
• Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless…
• People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is…
• Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor.…
• Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily…
• Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace;…
• An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children…
• If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but…
• Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
• If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the…
• Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
• The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a…
• Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and…
• His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.
• A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth…
• Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.
• There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.
• You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
• When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

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