"I will say little of the importance of……" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification."

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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