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“If I were to tell a preacher of the adjoining church that the road crew has been burning history books in his cemetery, under the guise of mowing weeds, he would be amazed and uncomprehending. How could a weed be a book?”

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who traded his is soon a pile of feathers.”