H. L. Mencken Quotes About Learning

• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Learning, Liberty

  The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

• The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Learning, Knowledge

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.311, Knopf

• Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

  H. L. Mencken

  Failure, Learning, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

• School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Believe, Learning

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage

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