Sentences with phrase «true purpose of public education»

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»