CONTENTS
Enquiry concerning political justice
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Author: Godwin William
Year: 1793
The project of a national education ought uniformly to be discouraged on account of its obvious alliance with national government... Before we put so powerful a machine under the direction of so ambiguous an agent it behoves us to consider well what it is that we do. Government will not fail to employ it to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions... It is not true that our youth should be instructed to venerate the constitution, however excellent; they should be instructed to venerate truth, and the constitution only so far as it corresponded with their independent deductions of truth... In the countries where liberty chiefly prevails, it is reasonably to be assumed that there are important errors, and a national education has the most direct tendency to perpetuate those errors and to form all minds upon one model.
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