One of the serious results of propaganda is that it has cau… - Everett Dean Martin

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One of the serious results of propaganda is that it has caused the public to think that education and propaganda are the same thing, and thus to make an ignorant multitude believe it is being educated when it is only being manipulated. Education aims at independence of judgement. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.

Everett Dean Martin

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Everett Dean Martin (July 5, 1880 – May 10, 1941) was an American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer, social psychologist, social philosopher, and an advocate of adult education.

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Education aims at independence of judgment. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.

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Richard M. Weaver Jacques Ellul John Dewey John Stuart Mill Theodore Dalrymple

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The evil effect of these attempts to manipulate the multitude by pampering its weaknesses---in return for material and other advantages to persons and for ends not disclosed—is clearly seen in various aspects of our common life. In politics such effect have long been deplorable.

Animal training may give one the means to make a living; liberal education gives living a meaning.

Propaganda is making puppets out of us. We are moved by hidden strings which the propagandist manipulates.

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