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Schools quote

Jack forwarded this several weeks ago, while I was offline:

"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps."

-H.L. Mencken {1880-1956 American Author & Critic}

Gene's Note: And people say our public schools are failing. Unfortunately, they're doing exactly what they are meant to do. Mencken saw this 50 years ago!