No truth, but still confident.

It is the great paradox of the modern world that at the very time when the world decided that people should not be coerced about their form of religion, it also decided that they should be coerced about their form of education. (Fn1.) [T]he more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to children. The smaller our faith in doctrine, the larger our faith in doctors. (Fn2.) I think our coercive popular education has been uncommonly near a complete failure. (Fn3.)

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Footnotes:

1. G.K. Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, Aug 8, 1925, quoted in Dale Ahlquist, Common Sense 101, p. 104.

2. Ibid., Jan 26, 1907.

3. Ibid., Jan 31, 1914.