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WRITERS > editor, satirist > H L Mencken
The truth is...
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
Source: The Educational Process, in New York Evening Mail (23 Jan 1918; repr. in Prejudices, Third Series, 1922).
-- H L Mencken, (Sep 12 1880-1956), US editor, satirist; He is known for his biting satire, insults, and debunking in The American Mercury, 1924-33.