This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated. ✨ H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series, Hubsta Ltd
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- Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.434, Vintage
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