“Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
““Because I said so” is the oppressor of independent thought, the oppressor of our curiosity, the oppressor of our why.” ~ Freedom in Thought
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“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.” ~ Haruki Murakami
“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool” ~ Plato
“Rather than trying to stay on top of things, I am trying to get to the bottom of things.” ~ Donald Knut
[The Truth about School]
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Humans are either slaves to human nature or masters of human nature.
“Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” ~ Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
“Schooling was influenced by the idea that self-directed learning created ‘dangerous,’ free-thinking, intelligent people who would make sure the government never became more powerful than the people.” ~ Laurie A. Couture
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds wit…
“Education is supposed to teach you how to think, not what to think.” ~ Ann Widdecombe
“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." ~ Thomas Sowell
“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” ~ Horace Walpole
“Most of life’s problems are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we think without acting.” ~ Unknown …
Our society has been dumbed down and indoctrinated to the point that most people actually believe everything they hear and assume that every critical thinker is a conspiracy theorist. Part of the problem is that people are so distracted with TV shows, movies, video games, media, sports, etc. People are so preoccupied with meaningless things that they never question or look into things.
The term “Conspiracy Theory” was coined by the CIA during the Kennedy Investigation and was designed to discre…