The Library of the Uncommons

Henry quoted The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The Demon-Haunted World (Paperback, 1997, Ballantine)

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet …

“Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?” - Ronald Reagan, campaign speech, 1980

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” - George Washington, address to Congress, 8 January 1790

— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Page 365)

Oh yeah, with all due respect… FUCK Reagan

David Martinez replied to Henry's status

@henry The fact that we even need to defend education in this country in baffling. It's like they want us to be dumb, so that we're easy to control. Oh wait, that's it.

Henry replied to David Martinez's status

@davidmartinez@mas.to An educated population is exactly what those in power do not want, yes! The book covers the journey of Fredrick Douglas who discovered this for himself and how the ability to read and learn was purposely kept away from slaves at the time. It’s sad to see us needing to justify basic education.