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.

original source: The Astonishing Hypothesis

Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken

American author, criticist

12 September 1880 — 29 January 1956

quoted by Matt Ridley in The Evolution of Everything

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Time of publication: October 23, 2018

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