The Morass of Propaganda (quote)

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To save people from the morass of propaganda ... is one of the chief aims of education.  Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from fiction. 

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.  But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society.  The most dangerous criminal may be the person gifted with reason but with no morals.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough.  Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.

                                                --Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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