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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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“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“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.”
― The Uncommon Reader
― The Uncommon Reader
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“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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“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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