The Education of Augie Merasty Quotes

“This book of yours, Augie?

It's your immortality.”
― Joseph Auguste Merasty, The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

“Brother Lepeigne was a man dedicated to preserving the image of Superiority of the Semi-Super Race of Whiteman over Indian, like the German Super Race tried to establish during the time of Hitler's regime. As I look back, what was happening at the school was basically the same thing, except on a smaller scale with the same principles.”
― Joseph Auguste Merasty, The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

“You boys are Roman Catholics, you know you should not kill. It's the Fifth Commandment of God!"

"Oh, yes", I said, "but you didn't remember any commandments of God when you tortured us for almost five years.”
― Joseph Auguste Merasty, The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

“I know they never practiced what they preached, not one iota. Do to others what you want them to do unto you. Be kind to others. Jesus will love you for it, and so on, and on and on and on, all the talking and preaching in church and classrooms. And what they did to us and how they administered their little regime did not mean a thing to them. They never practiced what they preached period.”
― Joseph Auguste Merasty, The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

“But if there was a man who fits that description of corrupter of little boys or polluter of young minds, it was Brother Johannes Verwelkend. But I suppose that as long as he provided free help in hat he was an expert as -- repairing shoes, moccasins, and skates -- the administration could turn a blind eye an a deaf ear.”
― Joseph Auguste Merasty, The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir