Monday, December 6, 2010

QUOTE FOR THE DAY



"These crimes will continue [terrorist activity blamed on the school's founder] as long as Spaniards maintain the freedom to read, to teach, and to think, from which come all these anti-social monsters."


Written about Escuala Moderna (the modern school) in spain in the early 1900s, by a right wing journalist of the time: it was basically a co-educational free school that was anti-government, anti-religion, and anti-military.  They believed in science and reason and secular schools, and were shut down after about 6 years. But there's a hell of a quote about it from a right wing journalist of the time:



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