All go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,
Little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same.
It's a modification of this Malvina Reynolds song, made famous by Pete Seeger.
Speaking of boxes, H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury (April 1924) that the aim of public education is not
to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence...Nothing could be further from the truth. 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. That is its aim in the United States.
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Sigh.
Speaking of boxes, H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury (April 1924) that the aim of public education is not
to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence...Nothing could be further from the truth. 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. That is its aim in the United States.
The more things change, the more they stay the same? Sigh.
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