Starting Early
As with other animals, what humans learn very early in life often
stays with them forever. Children are very trusting in authority
and unable to think for themselves (having had little life
experience). While of course they cannot understand complex
"administrative policy decisions," the most basic pro-tyranny, anti-
freedom concepts should be pounded into their little heads as soon
as possible. Early on, the goal should not be to teach the young
peasants specific facts, or even particular political ideas, but to
mold the way they view life in general—to build a foundation upon
which all your future propaganda can be built.
"[W]hen even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up
from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be
possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely,
dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any
circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of
that superstition." [Mark Twain]
The most fundamental thing the young peasants must be forced to
accept is: children who obey authority are good; those who do not
are bad. The "teacher" (the "authority" in the classroom) is to be
viewed as the sole source of truth and the sole arbiter of justice.
The "teacher" has the final decision in everything, his decision
cannot be appealed or questioned, and he can reward or punish at
whim. Seeking the approval of the authority (via good grades,
prizes, praise, etc.) and avoiding the scorn and disapproval of the
authority should be the only concern for the little peasants-in-
training.
"Schools are intended to produce, through the application of
formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted
and controlled." [John Taylor Gatto]
Teaching Subservience
Everything about the "education" systems in most of the world
teaches, first and foremost, that one should always be subservient
to authority. As an aspiring tyrant, you have already had much of
the work done for you, in that schools are already obedient-peasant
factories. While you can therefore just use what is already there
instead of having to start from scratch, you still need to
understand how it works in order to assure that it continues to
train your peasants to do as they are told.
"Look again at the seven lessons of schoolteaching: confusion,
class assignment, dulled responses, emotional and intellectual
dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance — all of these
things are good training for permanent underclasses." [John Taylor
Gatto]
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people
to be exactly like one another; ... in proportion as it is
efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind,
leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." [John Stuart
Mill]
For an in-depth analysis and explanation of how "education" is used
first and foremost to train the peasants to be willing subjects of
an authoritarian system of control, see
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto. (Despite winning various awards for his work as a
teacher, including New York State Teacher of the Year in 1992, Mr.
Gatto now understands and attempts to expose the true agenda behind
modern schooling. Though he holds pro-freedom, pro-individualist
views that are antithetical to the agenda of megalomaniacs like
yourself, his insights can nonetheless be turned around to help you
maximize your tyrannical control of the peasantry.)
Slaves Training Slaves
It would be impossible to get enough willing conspirators to
intentionally dumb down and subjugate all the peasant children.
Fortunately for you, there is no need to do that. Most of the
time, those who indoctrinate the next generation of authority-
obeyers are simply duped peasants themselves, passing on the false
ideas that they learned in childhood. Most teachers mean well and
want to help the little peasant larvae, and don't even notice the
messages of obedience, subservience, intellectual dependence and
conformity they are delivering day in and day out. In other words,
the teachers truly believe that obeying authority is good, and so
that message always shines through, whatever other particular facts
or concepts they are trying to teach.
The main lessons learned by students are: authority will decide
what you know; authority is the sole source of truth and knowledge;
authority decides whether your opinions and beliefs are correct;
the validity or accuracy of information provided by authority is
not subject to debate; authority will "grade" how good you are;
authority has complete control over you; authority decides how you
will spend your time; there is no appeal of a decision from
authority; authority has the right to know everything about you,
and everything you do; one should be silent and motionless unless
authority commands otherwise; it is good to report others who
disobey authority; authority can punish everyone for what one
person does; your future depends entirely upon whether authority
approves of you.
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all;
it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same
safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put
down dissent and originality." [H. L. Mencken]
The students will forget the capital of Wyoming, how many moons
Jupiter has, who fought in the War of 1812, and the scientific
symbol for iron; but they will not forget the real message of
school: good people obey authority.