In every country of the world, children arc taught that their country is the best, and in every country except one this proposition is false. ... The idea that what is taught to children should, if possible, be true is, I know, very subversive, and in some of its applications even illegal. But I cannot resist the conviction that instruction is better when it teaches truth than when it teaches falsehood.
Source: Education and the Social Order, 1932
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