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.

Famous Quotes / H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken: "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."

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Anything	Bring	Certain	Children
Citizen	Covered	Good	Head
Heaved	Heels	Highest	Hopper
Into	Maintained	Official	Order
Point	Possible	Pressed	Rubberstamps
Says	School	Schools	Shapes
Simply	Standard	Still	Tender
Therein	Thinks	Uniformity	Unusual
While	Young

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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