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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 ...more
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Jorge Luis Borges
“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Alan Bennett
“I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started to late. I will never catch up.”
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Harlan Ellison
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison

James Baldwin
“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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