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The social work of the school is often limited to training for citizenship, and citizenship is then interpreted in a narrow sense as meaning capacity to vote intelligently, disposition to obey laws, etc. But it is futile to contract and
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“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
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