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Gustave Le Bon

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    Those which are good at a given moment for a given people may be harmful in the extreme for another nation.
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    the latter has only been very slowly changed part by part, under the influence of immediate necessities and never of speculative reasoning.
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    Peoples are governed by their character, and all institutions which are not intimately modelled on that character merely represent a borrowed garment, a transitory disguise.
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    -directed instruction may not give very useful practical results, if not in the sense of raising the standard of morality, at least in that of developing professional capacity.
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    -consists in the fact that it is based on the fundamental psychological error that the intelligence is developed by the learning by heart of text-books. Adopting this view, the endeavour has been made to enforce a knowledge of as many hand-books as possible. From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal initiative being ever called into play. Education consists for him in reciting by heart and obeying.
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    while the most humble members of the middle classes admit of no possible career for their sons except that of State-paid functionaries. Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.
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    The conditions of success in life are the possession of judgment, experience, initiative, and character-qualities which are not bestowed by books. Books are dictionaries, which it is useful to consult, but of which it is perfectly useless to have lengthy portions in one’s head.
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    between truly democratic nations and those who have democracy in their speeches, but in no wise in their thoughts,
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    If we desire to understand the ideas and beliefs that are germinating to-day in the masses, and will spring up to-morrow, it is necessary to know how the ground has been prepared.
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    It is in part by instruction and education that the mind of the masses is improved or deteriorated.
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