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...know that you are being taken in by one of the greatest frauds of modern times? Do you realize that your education here is provided by the capitalistic industries; that you are learning nothing but their spoon-fed propaganda; that your minds are being bought and sold daily with no more compunction than when, in the days of ancient Rome, the bodies of the slave-women were sold upon the public market-place...
...sketch in the first chapter. The rest of the book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...
Sued for Divorce: Edgar Lee Masters, poet, the author of Spoon River Anthology, by Helen Jenkins Masters. They had previously separated, and had later resumed living together...
...most important features in the acquisition of an education is the ability to think and weigh decisions for oneself; given both sides of a case, the final judgment, unless it comes from the student himself, is worthless both to the student and as a judgment. Spoon-fed minds can never be anything but a sop to the community. And, incidentally, the propagandists are defeating their own ends; for as soon as a counter-propagandist appears who can out-shout them, their converts, trained to be "followers". Carlylian "valets", are as liable as not to recant, and desert to the enemy...
...early prejudice brings with it all the attendant dangers of disillusionment. Furthermore, an enduring faith in one's country is founded not on ignorance of its shortcomings but on an appreciation of the counterbalancing merits. The sconer this is recognized in our elementary history classes, the sooner will our "spoon-fed" patriotism give way to one of reason...