Education is a monstrosity when it is unequal, when it is the exclusive patrimony of one class of the society; because education then becomes the controlling hand of this class, a mass of mechanisms, a provision of weapons of all kinds, by which the ruling class combats the other class, which is disarmed.

Jean-Marc Shiappa, ed. in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux. Les éditions ouvrières.