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> [The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-adams/the-only-chance-for-much-intellectual-improvement-in-the-female-sex/)

[Abigail Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-adams/)

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> [There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-trilling/there-is-no-connection-between-the-political-ideas-of-our-educated/)

[Lionel Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-trilling/)

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> [Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-mackay/universal-literacy-was-a-20th-century-goal-before-then-reading-and/)

[Hugh Mackay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-mackay/)

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> [History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/calvin-coolidge/history-reveals-no-civilized-people-among-whom-there-was-not-a-highly/)

[Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/calvin-coolidge/)

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> [“In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brooks/in-the-educated-class-even-social-life-is-a-series-of-aptitude-tests/)

[David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brooks/)

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> [“It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-barzun/it-is-a-noteworthy-feature-of-20c-culture-that-for-the-first-time-in/)

[Jacques Barzun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-barzun/)

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> [We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kory-stamper/we-want-to-emulate-the-educated-class-even-if-we-don-t-think-of/)

[Kory Stamper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kory-stamper/)

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> [The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brooks/the-public-is-not-only-shifting-from-left-to-right-every-single-idea/)

[David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brooks/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/david-brooks-644_class_the-public-is-not-only-shifting-from-lef_1331407.png)

> [Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brooks/self-actualization-is-what-educated-existence-is-all-about-for/)

[David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brooks/)

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