H. L. Mencken Quotes About Teachers

• The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.

• The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Children, Best Teacher

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.

• I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Determination, School

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.

• The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Artist, World

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

• School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Stupid, School

  H. L. Mencken (2013). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

• The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Average, Ass

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