Famous Quotes by H.L. Mencken about Education Quotes

1. "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." (Education Quotes) Click to tweet

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2. "The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens." (Education Quotes) Click to tweet

3. "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." (Humanity Quotes) Click to tweet

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4. "Say what you will about the ten commandments, but you must always come back to the pleasant thought there that there are only ten of them." (Inspirational Quotes) Click to tweet

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5. "To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess." (Love Quotes) Click to tweet

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6. "Looking back over a life of hard work… my only regret is that i didn’t work even harder." (Perseverance Quotes) Click to tweet

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7. "The older i grow the more i distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." (Words of Wisdom) Click to tweet

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8. "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." (Words of Wisdom) Click to tweet

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