H.L. Mencken Quotes
In Brief, The Teaching Process, As Commonly Observed, Has Nothing To Do With The Investigation And Establishment Of Facts, Assuming That Actual Facts May Ever Be Determined. Its Sole Purpose Is To Cram The Pupils, As Rapidly And As Painlessly As Possible, With The Largest Conceivable Outfit Of Current Axioms, In All Departments Of Human Thought - To Make The Pupil A Good Citizen, Which Is To Say, A Citizen Differing As Little As Possible, In Positive Knowledge And Habits Of Mind, From All Other Citizens. In Other Words, It Is The Mission Of The Pedagogue, Not To Make His Pupils Think, But To Make Them Think Right, And The More Nearly His Own Mind Pulsates With The Great Ebbs And Flows Of Popular Delusion And Emotion, The More Admirably He Performs His Function. He May Be An Ass, But This Is Surely No Demerit In A Man Paid To Make Asses Of His Customers.
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