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  • YouJustDidAReddit [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • Bruja [she/her, love/loves]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      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."

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        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

    • honeynut
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

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