Fyodor Dostoevsky. Diary of a writer (№ 423797)

Education, on the other hand, will be based on where we have begun, that is, on their denial of all his past and on the curse to which he himself must betray his past. A little bit we will teach a man from the people to read, immediately make him smell Europe, immediately begin to seduce him with Europe, well, at least with the sophistication of life, decency, costume, drinks, dances - in a word, we will make him ashamed of his former laptya and kvass, ashamed of his ancient songs, and although there are several beautiful and musical ones, but we will still make him sing rhyming vaudeville, no matter how angry you are at it. In short, for a good purpose, we, by the most numerous and all means, will act primarily on the weak strings of character, as it was with us, and then the people are ours. He will shame his former and curse him. Who curses his former, he is already ours - this is our formula!