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Oakland Tribune, California, October 22, 1922 And the movies are teaching the sort of tommyrot which makes 15-year-old girls think seriously of love and jealousy and marriage with 15-year-old boys. But, you protest, the movies do not show 15-year-old...   High-res

Oakland Tribune, California, October 22, 1922

And the movies are teaching the sort of tommyrot which makes 15-year-old girls think seriously of love and jealousy and marriage with 15-year-old boys. But, you protest, the movies do not show 15-year-old boys and girls getting married.

NO, BUT THEY SHOW A BUNCH OF CUSTARD HEADS OF 30 AND 40 ACTING LIKE 15-YEAR-OLD BOYS AND GIRLS. THEY EXPLOIT 15-YEAR-OLD SLUSH AND GUSH, ROMANTICISM AND UNFAIRNESS, AND YOU, THE PARENTS OF 15-YEAR-OLD YOUNGSTERS GO AND LAP IT UP.

The Decatur Herald, Illinois, August 11, 1922

As a rule, my education consisted in a silly development of memory, the learning of a lot of the things for which I have never had any use, the development of reverence for a lot of things that are entirely unworthy of it, and the encouragement of enthusiasm which I had painfully to discard.

In other words, about all the education I ever got that did me any good I had to get in spite of my schools and my teachers.