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Everett Dean Martin was an American minister, writer, journalist, instructor, lecturer, social psychologist, social philosopher, and an advocate of adult education. He was an instructor and lecturer at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1921-1929, and served on the Board of Directors of The New School from 1925-1932. He was the final Director of the People's Institute of Cooper Union in New York City from 1922-1934. Martin was born in Jacksonville, Illinois on July 5, 1880. Graduating with honors at the age of 24 from Illinois College in Jacksonville, he moved on to Chicago, attending McCormick Theological Seminary from 1904 until his ordination as a Congregational Minister in 1907. Martin received a Litt.D degree from Illinois College in 1907. He was best known for his advocacy of the liberal education of adults, which he saw as “an antidote to both the irrationality of the crowd and the power of propaganda.” Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Luglio 1880 – 10. Maggio 1941
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“It must be borne in mind that everything the propagandist does or says is for effect—most commonly the effect on fools. The public wants not truth but a show?”

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Origine: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 144

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

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 74

“What the state desires of education is soldiers, reliable voters, law-abiding citizens, contented working men, prosperous traders. Hence a spirit of docility and credulity, often of timidity, prevails in the school.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 74

“It will hardly be denied that a revolution, whatever else it may be, is a phenomenon of the crowd. I have endeavored to approach the historical survey of revolutionary movements from the standpoint of social psychology.”

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Origine: Farewell to Revolution (1935), p. x, Foreword

“There is a quality of the educated mind which may best be described as a kind of sincerity, and conversely the outstanding trait of ignorance is that of clever insincerity.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 43

“Education is emancipation from herd opinion, self-mastery, capacity for self-criticism, suspended judgment, and urbanity.”

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Preface p. vii
The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926)

“Education aims at independence of judgment. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.”

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Origine: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 145

“It is impossible to understand the American public without taking into account the tremendous psychological effect of bringing up a generation of people in a daily environment of advertising. It is impossible to escape the advertising man; his sales talk assaults us in the morning newspaper, in the street car, with billboards along the highways, and in his shameless use of the radio. This means that from morning till night, in the midst of our work as in our recreation, we live constantly in an atmosphere of intellectual shoddiness. Every popular prejudice and vulgar conceit is played upon and pandered to in the interests of salesmanship. Everywhere material interests and herd opinion are strengthened to the loss of personal independence. The tendency is to think and speak for effect rather than out of one's inner life. There is a marked decline the ability to play with ideas, or to live the spiritual life for its own sake. Hence a decline in civilization of interest, humor and urbanity. Advertising tends to make mechanized barbarians of us all.”

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Origine: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), pp. 29-30

“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.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 180

“It is the place of liberal Christianity to state the supremacy of the everlasting ends of life over the means of living, of the believer over the thing believed, the man over the system, the worker over the product. We are not liberals because we believe less but because we believe more. We dare to believe without an infallible guarantee of the substance of our faith in a moral issue. It is not an historical opinion. Liberalism is not a new system of dogma, but a new point of view. … The place of liberal Christianity is to restore to the moderm man his spiritual integrity.”

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"New Pastor in Initial Sermon," The Register and Leader (Des Moines), January 16, 1911, p. 5

“Moral education is not mere drill in the ways of the herd. The good man's first duty, as Professor Erskine says, is to be intelligent. Good intentions alone do not enable man to judge wisely or behave well. The prevailing idea that one can be at the same time good and stupid has strongly influenced our education.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 180

“One of the serious results of propaganda is that it has caused the public to think that education and propaganda are the same thing, and thus to make an ignorant multitude believe it is being educated when it is only being manipulated. Education aims at independence of judgement. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.”

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Origine: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 145

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

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Origine: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 29

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

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Origine: The Behavior of Crowds (1920), p. 7

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

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 219

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

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 91

“By the term individual I shall mean that in which each of us is peculiarly himself. I shall emphasize not what is common is us, but what is uncommon, and this leads me to a restatement of our question. In considering what is happening to the individual, I shall discuss what in modern civilization is happening to the uncommon in us. Are we becoming more common or more uncommon? Are the common people destroying the uncommon? Is the public self of us crushing out the personal self? Are we being directed more from without than from within? As our group memberships grow larger, do we as persons tend to grow smaller? Do the tendencies of the present day, mass movements, social organization, publicity, public education, emphasize the unique in man, or enhance the dominance of undifferentiated man acting as mass?”

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Origine: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 9

“The so-called natural sentiments of the average man are mostly the inherited prejudices of the once suppressed classes. The emphasis upon natural goodness is, psychologically speaking, unwillingness to submit such prejudices to wholesome self-criticism. Hence the democratic government tends to support each crowd in its delusion of infallibility. The crowd rationalizes its will to rule in terms of narrow and parochial ideas of righteousness and seeks to force conformity to such ideas upon all. The imagined vindication of the common man's notions of goodness is regarded as the ultimate triumph of righteousness. Hence democracy has always manifested a certain crusading spirit, and the democratic Utopia is envisaged as a sort of Roman peace with "righteousness" established by force rather than assent.”

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Origine: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 22

“Common men cherish their naive faiths and ask no questions.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 85

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

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Origine: Farewell to Revolution (1935), p. xi, Foreword

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

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 44

“Dr. Kallen says, "Free public education and private instruction purchasable at a price are both but the community's device to meet present needs by transmitting the past unchanged. They provide a grammar of assent, not a logic of inquiry. The mental posture they habituate the youth in is not the posture of reflection. The mental posture they habituate the youth in is the posture of conformity. They require belief, not investigation. They impose reverence for the past and idealization of the present. They envision the future as a perpetuation of the past, not as a new creation of it. They are Main Street's most powerful instrument of self-reproduction without variation…. They enable government both visible and invisible to continue by consent, for they forestall and inhibit in the citizens of the land the technique of doubt and dissent which is the necessary condition of good government and the true inward-ness of that eternal vigilance so notoriously the price of liberty."”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 75

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

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 89

“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."”

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Origine: The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), pp. 9-10

“Another method of escaping moral responsibility is to run with the crowd. The crowd never considers consequences; it is bent upon vindicating its principles at any cost. It is anonymous; in it the individual may not be held to account.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 195

“I have characterized education as a victory won over one's wish-fancies and childish egoism, as the lifting of the problems of life to higher and more significant dilemmas, as the attainment of mastery. A humanistic liberalism seeks freedom as broad-mindedness; it strives for a highly civilized, urbane and sophisticated state of mind in which insight is deepened and interest is widened.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 133

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

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 89

“Psychology is an attempt to gain a scientific understanding of human nature. We are all deeply interested in knowing human nature. When we are not talking about ourselves we are usually talking about our neighbors.”

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Origine: Psychology and Its Use (1933), p. 9

“The attitude of authority discourages the spirit of search and criticism. Popular prejudice is entrenched. Non-essentials are over-emphasized. Crowd-mindedness, rather than independence of judgment, prevails.”

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Origine: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 181

“One reason why people cherish the delusion that they are still free long after they have lost or destroyed the liberties won by their ancestors lies in the boundless vanity of man when acting as mass. The mass in modern times believes it is sovereign. As sovereign it is free.”

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Origine: Liberty (1930), p. 13