Name:   phil - Subject:   Dumbing Down Date:   12/7/2016 12:01:44 PM

George Orwell's 1984 explains education, history and "fake news"  he just missed by a few years.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/quotes.html

war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength                     

By weakening the independence and strength of individuals’ minds and forcing them to live in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear, the Party is able to force its subjects to accept anything it decrees, even if it is entirely illogical—for instance,

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/doomed-to-repeat-it