Education Quote by Alfred Rosenberg

A bland little sentence that smuggles in a political program: not education as learning, but education as takeover. “We are the transition” turns people into a conveyor belt between two regimes of thought, implying the old one is already obsolete and the new one is inevitable. The grammar is collectivist and self-authorizing. No “I think,” no argument, just a claimed historical role: we are history’s hinge.

Rosenberg wasn’t merely a “soldier”; he was one of Nazism’s chief ideologues, tasked with laundering racial myth into something that could pass as worldview. Read in that light, “one education” versus “the other” isn’t a neutral shift in pedagogy. It’s the euphemism of a movement that needed to replace pluralism with doctrine. The line gestures at continuity - a smooth “transition” - while the Nazi project depended on rupture: purges of teachers, book burnings, Gleichschaltung, the retooling of curricula to produce obedient subjects and racialized enemies.

The subtext is recruitment and absolution at once. Recruitment, because it flatters the listener into joining a generational vanguard: you are not just studying; you are participating in an epochal handoff. Absolution, because “transition” disguises coercion. If change is framed as historical necessity, resistance becomes not disagreement but backwardness.

It works rhetorically because it’s empty enough to be repeated as a slogan, yet loaded enough to signal insider purpose. The most dangerous propaganda often arrives as administrative language: quiet, abstract, seemingly reasonable - until you notice what it refuses to name.