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To: NOW who wrote (10314)8/8/2004 1:28:08 PM
From: jrhana  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116555
 
L believe you are thinking of H.L. Mencken's:

<Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.>

quotationspage.com

I came across this one also:

<Consider [the pedagogue] in his highest incarnation: the
university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh
generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is
fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole
professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and
avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers,
nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he
offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud
without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.>

lhup.edu