H.L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury, for April 1924
" 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 and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is it's aim in the United States, whatever pretensions of politicians, pedagogues other such mountebanks, and that is it's aims everywhere else."
