Quotes About Bunkum

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.

Economy. Pleasure-pain bunkum.

He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson. I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him a writer who tried to bully his way to prophecy. Of Emerson at the time I had no opinions to offer. I found him out later to be a sugary humbug. His transcendental bunkum sickened me.