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In Chapter 1: The Segregation That Is Needed, Marion Montgomery argues that modern education prioritizes social adjustment over intellectual honesty. Teachers are pressured to inflate grades and avoid failure, undermining merit and truth. True compassion lies in fair judgment of ability. The good teacher must resist sentimentality and restore integrity to education through honest, principled evaluation.

In the introduction to The Truth of Things, Marion Montgomery says modern education, driven by a false ideal of sameness, ignores individual gifts in favor of standardized systems and moral abstractions. This erases personal difference, leading to intellectual decay and institutional bloat. True education must treasure difference as essential to community and cultivate each student's unique potential.

In the preface to The Truth of Things, Marion Montgomery reflects on Socrates' trial as the foundation for Western education. A crisis has since unfolded: a shift from the pursuit of wisdom to the prioritization of utility. He contrasts the classical view of the person as an intellectual soul with the modern individual shaped by relativism, specialization, and self-love, urging a return to truth-centered learning.

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“…the significant thing is not the walking or the sending-for, but the kind of book fetched and how it changes a man. We ought to spend less time teaching that Lincoln walked miles for the books he read and more time reading the books he walked after.”