"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

#Learning Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes #Safe Quotes

“A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.”
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
“Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]”
“We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.”
“The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.Â What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.”
“A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.”
“The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.”
“During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.”

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