The holders of power wish to conceal the truth from their slaves, in order that they may be misled as to their own interests ; this is intelligible. What is less intelligible is that democracies should voluntarily make laws designed to prevent themselves from knowing the truth. This is collective Quixotism : they are resolved not to be told that the helmet is less good than they wish to believe.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, Pt. 3： Intellectual education, chap.16: Last school years.
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