'Only freedom can inspire men to great things and bring about intellectual and social transformations. The art of ruling men has never been the art of educating and inspiring them to a new shaping of their lives. Dreary compulsion has at its command only lifeless drill, which smothers any vital initiative at its birth and brings forth only subjects, not free men*. Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual, social and political oppression, which finds its highest expression in the philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity' - Rudolf Rocker

*'A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body'

- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

...more on education; an interesting essay on the birth of state-controlled education, despite perennial 'lordy lordy' currents: growth of modern absolutism and death of church/aristocracy attributed to the rise of the 'absolute state' and the inauguration of 'schooling' as a social tool- criticism spot on for state, but fails to apply similar approach to the inherent manipulation and indoctrination similarly exercised through religious edu./institutions, nonetheless…