June 11, 2025

The preservation of the means of knowledge (let me repeat that: the means of knowledge, how one becomes a knowing person) among the lowest ranks is of more importance to that public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

John Adams (1735–1826), American politician and president, Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765), Seldes, p.6

Boy, does he have his values all mixed up? Or does he?

Public education—the education of the public in critical thinking skills, is the last bulwark against the efforts of the few to control government for their own ends.