Tag Archives: Isabel Paterson

She Said That? 4/1/17

From Isabel Paterson  (1886–1961), writer, influential literary critic, and libertarian philosopher, The God of the Machine (1943):

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

She Said That? 9/2/16

From Isabel Paterson (1886-1961), Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and literary critic of her day, The God of the Machine (1943):

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.