A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another, and the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation. — John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) For many years after immersion in Victorian novels during grad school, as much as I enjoyed them, I believed the world and the people they depicted […]

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