On conformity;
The opposite for courage is not
cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Follow the path of the unsafe,
independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy.
Speak your
mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of
conformity.
And just in time for the school season;
“Ideally, what should be said to
every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like
this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a
system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but
it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of
current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest
look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being
taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of
thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who
are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find
ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgments. Those that stay
must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being molded and
patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular
society.”
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