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Everett Dean Martin Quotes

1880–1941 United States

Everett Dean Martin (July 5, 1880 – May 10, 1941) was an American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer, social psychologist, social philosopher, and an advocate of adult education.

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Education is training in wisdom and virtue, and the exercise of these is freedom.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

The crowd is a social phenomenon only in the sense that it affects a number of persons at the same time.

The Behavior of Crowds (1920)

Is learning a venture in spiritual freedom that is humanism, or is it a routine process of animal training?

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Common men cherish their naive faiths and ask no questions.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Standardization develops a kind of mass mind, which in mature years renders men very susceptible to crowd appeal.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Seek education for yourself and it is the search for the good life. From ancient times men have sought knowledge that they might become better judges of good and evil.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Animal training may give one the means to make a living; liberal education gives living a meaning.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Whoever is concerned about his education should be on his guard against propaganda.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Most minds are loaded down with the seriousness of their convictions.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Crowd men have no sense of humor. It is very difficult to educate solemn and opinionated people.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Propaganda is defined as the manipulation of the public to the end of securing some specific action.

Advertising tends to make mechanized barbarians of us all.

The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)

Moral training which does not encourage critical examination of popular ideas of what is right and good, does not tend to make men better, but only of one mind.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

The greater the industrial and political organization, the greater is the emphasis on the individual as a mere mass unit, and the smaller his importance as a single separate person.

The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)

Every government, our own included, fights with propaganda as deadly as poison gas.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

When we think we are most free our opinions and our behavior are being skillfully manipulated by persons operating behind the scenes.

The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)

Individuality is a cultural achievement rather than a gift of nature. During the 19th century it was rather common for people to believe they were expressing their individuality by being "natural."

The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)

The skepticism which has value is that which leads one on to further study and investigation. And it is characterized by intellectual modesty.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Governments and churches and ruling classes and commercial groups have always sought to get their hands on the institutions for the education of youth and utilize them for their own interests.

The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

Crowd mentality is a kind of simultaneous psychosis which may take possession of any group.

Farewell to Revolution (1935)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Everett Dean Martin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.