H. L. Mencken Quotes

I've never been a teacher in my life.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Those who can't do, teach!

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

The teacher ought also to be specially on his guard against taking unfair advantage of the student’s immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher’s own opinions before the student has had an opportunity fairly to examine other opinions upon the matters in question, and before he has sufficient knowledge and ripeness of judgment to be entitled to form any definitive opinion of his own.

For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I'm a high school history teacher who got lucky.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."

What do they teach them at these schools?

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.