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    The document discusses scientific societies and education in a scientific society. It suggests that advances in physiology and psychology could give governments more control over individual mentality. It also discusses using methods like diet, injections and conditioning from a young age to produce desirable beliefs and make criticism of authorities psychologically impossible.

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    The document discusses scientific societies and education in a scientific society. It suggests that advances in physiology and psychology could give governments more control over individual mentality. It also discusses using methods like diet, injections and conditioning from a young age to produce desirable beliefs and make criticism of authorities psychologically impossible.

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    The document discusses scientific societies and education in a scientific society. It suggests that advances in physiology and psychology could give governments more control over individual mentality. It also discusses using methods like diet, injections and conditioning from a young age to produce desirable beliefs and make criticism of authorities psychologically impossible.

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    "Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. . . .

    It is to be expected that advances


    in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over
    individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it
    down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left
    school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting
    otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Diet, injections, and
    injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character
    and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism
    of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. . . .”----Bertrand
    Russell,1953
    "Education in a scientific society may, I think, be best conceived after the analogy of
    the education provided by the Jesuits. The Jesuits provided one sort of education for
    the boys who were to become ordinary men of the world, and another for those who
    were to become members of the Society of Jesus. In like manner, the scientific rulers
    will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for
    those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will
    be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these
    qualities probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to
    produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will
    be brought into play." -----Read the book online here...[part 3, XIV, Education in a
    Scientific Society p.251]
    "Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled
    they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting
    otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist
    of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try
    different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When
    the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of
    education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely
    without the need of armies or policemen."  -----Bertrand Russell quoting Johann
    Gottlieb Fichte, the head of philosophy & psychology who influenced Hegel and
    others – Prussian University in Berlin, 1810

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