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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