Capitalism
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...will it be feasible for the working masses to know complete emancipation as long as the education available to those masses continues to be inferior to that bestowed upon the bourgeois, or, in more general terms, as long as there exists any class, be it numerous or otherwise, which, by virtue of birth, is entitled to a superior education and a more complete instruction?


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...the rarest thing for someone given to medicine, canon law, or civil law (the lucrative arts) to be found upright, or balanced in reason, or just, or tranquil, or of genuine insight.


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O philosopher! thy wisdom is vain, and thy virtue unprofitable. Thou seekest the ignorant applauses of men, not the solid reflections of thy own conscience...


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Engineers, scientists, and doctors merely exploit their capital -- their diplomas -- as middle-class employers exploit a factory, or as nobles used to exploit their titles of nobility.


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In physics and chemistry, and in application of these to industry, the progress made in a century has been little short of the marvelous. But in the social sciences there is no such advance to record, because the progress of these sciences and their progressive application to society means the destruction of capitalism, private ownership of the means of life. And so orthodox economics is barren of fruits, has no real connection with the developing economic phenomena, and is incapable of explaining them. The economists of today write books, abounding with mathematical subtleties, such as have no guidance to give us so far as the control of social productive forces is concerned.


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Almost wholly, today, education is thought of as a means to material ends. Adult education is, for all practical purposes, unalloyed vocational training, and with the degree associated with it aptly dubbed the meal-ticket.


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I recall a conversation that must have taken place about a year before I left St Cyprian's. A Russian boy, large and fair-haired, a year older than myself, was questioning me.

"How much a year has your father got?"

I told him what I thought it was, adding a few hundreds to make it sound better. The Russian boy, neat in his habits, produced a pencil and a small note-book and made a calculation.

"My father has over two hundred times as much money as yours," he announced with a sort of amused contempt.

That was in 1915. What happened to that money a couple of years later, I wonder? And still more I wonder, do conversations of that kind happen at preparatory schools now?


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The exploiting class, as a class, was opposed to popular education, and retarded every step of its progress.


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"You can make figures do anything you want!"

"In business, Ned, but not in mathematics."


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     Capitalism -- Added : April 12, 2020

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