"Education makes a people easy to
lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
As
Allan Bloom pointed out in The Closing of the American Mind, education in this
sense means widespread citizen reading in the great classics and history.
Specialized professional training is not the same as this kind of education. In
fact, the most highly trained but shallowly educated populace before ours was
Germany in the 1930s.
A highly trained nation, without widespread and deep
classical education, is easy to drive and mislead.
Social Leader Daily by Oliver DeMille
