PROTOCOL NUMBER SIXTEEN


1. In order to effect the destruction of all collective
forces except ours we shall emasculate the first stage of
collectivism - the universities, by re-educating them in a
new direction. Their officials and professors will be
prepared for their business by detailed secret programs of
action from which they will not with immunity diverge, not
by one iota. They will be appointed with especial
precaution, and will be so placed as to be wholly dependent
upon the government.

2. We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law
as also all that concerns the political question. These
subjects will be taught to a few dozen of persons chosen for
their pre-eminent capacities from among the number of the
initiated. The universities must no longer send out from
their halls milk sops concocting plans for a constitution,
like a comedy or a tragedy, busying themselves with
questions of policy in which even their own fathers never
had any power of thought.

3. The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons
with questions of polity creates utopian dreamers and bad
subjects, as you can see for yourselves from the example of
the universal education in this direction of the goyim. We
must introduce into their education all those principles
which have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we
are in power we shall remove every kind of disturbing
subject from the course of education and shall make out of
the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who
rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet.

WE SHALL CHANGE HISTORY:

4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history,
in which there are more bad than good examples, we shall
replace with the study of the program of the future. We
shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous
centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those
which depict all the errors of the government of the goyim.
The study of practical life, of the obligations of order, of
the relations of people one to another, of avoiding bad and
selfish examples, which spread the infection of evil, and
similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the
forefront of the teaching program, which will be drawn up on
a separate plan for each calling or state of life, in no
wise generalizing the teaching. This treatment of the
question has special importance.

5. Each state of life must be trained within strict limits
corresponding to its destination and work in life. The
occasional genius has always managed and always will manage
to slip through into other states of life, but it is the
most perfect folly for the sake of this rare occasional
genius to let through into ranks foreign to them the
untalented who thus rob of their places who belong to those
ranks by birth or employment. You know yourselves in what
all this has ended for the "goyim" who allowed this crying
absurdity.

6. In order that he who rules may be seated firmly in the
hearts and minds of his subjects it is necessary for the
time of his activity to instruct the whole nation in the
schools and on the market places about this meaning and his
acts and all his beneficent initiatives.

7. We shall abolish every kind of freedom of instruction.
Learners of all ages have the right to assemble together
with their parents in the educational establishments as it
were in a club: during these assemblies, on holidays,
teachers will read what will pass as free lectures on
questions of human relations, of the laws of examples, of
the philosophy of new theories not yet declared to the
world. These theories will be raised by us to the stage of a
dogma of faith as a traditional stage towards our faith. On
the completion of this exposition of our program of action
in the present and the future I will read you the principles
of these theories.

8. In a word, knowing by the experience of many centuries
that people live and are guided by ideas, that these ideas
are imbibed by people only by the aid of education provided
with equal success for all ages of growth, but of course by
varying methods, we shall swallow up and confiscate to our
own use the last scintilla of independence of thought, which
we have for long past been directing towards subjects and
ideas useful for us. The system of bridling thought is
already at work in the so-called system of teaching by
object lessons, the purpose of which is to turn the goyim
into unthinking submissive brutes waiting for things to be
presented before their eyes in order to form an idea of them
.... In France, one of our best agents, Bourgeois, has
already made public a new program of teaching by object
lessons.

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