Couple of Lenin quotes which say it all.
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. “
“Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. “
Finally, it has nothing to do with education:
“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. “
Thanks for the Lenin quotes. Ultimately he was wrong, as the USSR collapsed on itself without the need for a ‘reverse’ revolution. Socialism and the politics of ‘the enlightened oligarchy’ (which is how many liberal activists, like Ayers, see themselves) will always fail in the long run, because they are destructive to the individual, and it is individualism, free will, and the desire for people to distinguish themselves as unique that leads to progress. That said, people like Lenin, and Ayers, can do a lot of damage and hurt many people before the ultimate collapse of their empty ideologies.