ABSTRACT
Propaganda in Education Propaganda may be defined as any attempt, by means of persuasion, to enlist human beings in the service of one party to any dispute. It is thus distinguished from persecution by its method, which is one that eschews force, and from instruction by its motive, which is not the dissemination of knowledge but the generating of some kind of party feeling. It may differ from instruction in nothing but motive, since it may (though this is exceptional) consist entirely of accurate information; but even then it will consist of such information as tends in a given direction, to the exclusion of such as has a contrary tendency. Eulogy and invective, as opposed to scientific psychological analysis, are both propaganda, though most men have enough virtues and enough defects to enable either to dispense with falsehood. In like manner it is possible to write the history of a nation from a friendly or a hostile point of view, and to confine oneself, in doing so, to true statements: the impression conveyed to the reader is incorrect, but only through its omissions.
