When an opponent declares, I will not come over to your side, and you will not get me on your side, I calmly say, Your child belongs to me already. A people lives forever. What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants however now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.- Hitler at Elbing, Germany, when the Nazi conspirators publicly announced the purposes of their educational and training program.
The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. *** This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.- Adolph Hitler, 1 May 1937.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
- Vladimir Lenin