Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Socialism on Mar 20th, 2011
Here is an illustration of how the intellectual forebears of the modern egalitarian movement thought: Everybody is poor together. There is much discontent, much regulation of life, but not much terrorism or repression except of the old upper classes. That was Roger Baldwin writing about his gaga-eyed impressions of the young Soviet Union in the […]
Posted in Voluntary Society on Mar 20th, 2011
On certification in education: “The examinations, however, in the higher branches of knowledge should, I conceive, be entirely voluntary. It would be giving too dangerous a power to governments, were they allowed to exclude any one from professions, even from the profession of teacher, for alleged deficiency of qualifications: and I think, with Wilhelm von […]
