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  • The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

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    The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

  • The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

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    H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

  • [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

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H. L. Mencken

  • Born: September 12, 1880
  • Died: January 29, 1956
  • Occupation: Journalist
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