H. G. Wells Quote

I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation today is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.

The Informative Content of Education Speech given at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Nottingham, England on 2 September 1937