Quote by Aldous Huxley

Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.


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Summary

This quote criticizes a fictional practice called sleep teaching that was banned in England due to the principles of liberalism. It suggests that Parliament passed a law against it, with surviving records reflecting speeches on the importance of individual freedom. The quote conveys a sense of irony and mockery, emphasizing that the freedom granted by liberalism paradoxically allows people to be inefficient and unhappy, constrained by societal expectations and unable to fit in or excel.

By Aldous Huxley
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