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- [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
- There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level…
- Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
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