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Quote of the Day – Public Education
The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. … Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim … is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is the aim in the United States and that is its aim everywhere else. – H. L. Mencken
All you have to do is look at what is going on at today’s college campuses to realize the accuracy of Mencken’s century-old observation. Conformity and obedience are what is being taught by today’s educational establishment. It may not be the conformity of the “squares” that Mencken envisioned, but it is just as rigid.