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-Meanwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all the different countries, is turned on to making defenceless children believe absurd propositions the effect of which is to make them willing to die in defence of sinister interests under the impression that they are fighting for truth and right. This is only one of countless ways in which education 24 is designed, not to give true knowledge, but to make the people pliable to the will of their masters. Without an elaborate system of deceit in the elementary schools it would be impossible to preserve the camouflage of democracy. +Meanwhile the whole machinery of the State, in all the different countries, is turned on to making defenceless children believe absurd propositions the effect of which is to make them willing to die in defence of sinister interests under the impression that they are fighting for truth and right. This is only one of countless ways in which education is designed, not to give true knowledge, but to make the people pliable to the will of their masters. Without an elaborate system of deceit in the elementary schools it would be impossible to preserve the camouflage of democracy. 
-<cite>Bertrand Russell(1922) Free Thought and Official Propaganda[(Free_Thought_and_Official_Propaganda>Bertrand Russell(1922) - Free Thought and Official Propaganda[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Thought_and_Official_Propaganda|Wikipedia]])]+<cite>Bertrand Russell (1922)Free Thought and Official Propaganda[(Free_Thought_and_Official_Propaganda>Bertrand Russell(1922) - Free Thought and Official Propaganda[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Thought_and_Official_Propaganda|Wikipedia]])]
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