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  • A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

    H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик
  • School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

    Believe  
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage
  • What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

  • The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.202, Vintage
  • 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.

  • 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 (2013). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.
  • School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

    Believe  
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage
  • At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.

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