The original quote is from a San Fransisco Chronicle article title “Professor Sees Peril in Education” from October 30, 1970. Actually can't find that specifically though it gets sourced by dozens of other works citing it, so I'm guessing it's true.
This is Lewis Powell in the '70s and reading his writing from the timeit doesn't too far fetched. The dude was a freak.
War, Revolution and Peace. He told a press conference called "to correct misleading charges" recently made by Democrats that he thought there are a lot of students in college today who don't be- long there. "We are in danger of pro- ducing an educated proletar- iat." Freeman said. "That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher educa- tion). "If not we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed peo- ple. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen."
The original quote is from a San Fransisco Chronicle article title “Professor Sees Peril in Education” from October 30, 1970. Actually can't find that specifically though it gets sourced by dozens of other works citing it, so I'm guessing it's true.
This is Lewis Powell in the '70s and reading his writing from the timeit doesn't too far fetched. The dude was a freak.
It’s behind a paywall but in archives on that date searching for “educated proletariat”.
War, Revolution and Peace.
He told a press conference
called "to correct misleading
charges" recently made by
Democrats that he thought
there are a lot of students in
college today who don't be-
long there.
"We are in danger of pro-
ducing an educated proletar-
iat." Freeman said. "That's
dynamite! We have to be
selective on who we allow to
go through (higher educa-
tion).
"If not we will have a
large number of highly
trained and unemployed peo-
ple. That's what happened in
Germany. I saw it happen."
Really cool and normal system that requires to to keep your people uneducated
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