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“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.” quote by Raymond Chandler — Download Open image

““A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.””

Raymond Chandler

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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

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“If a free people is going to be reproduced, it will require watering and revivifying and owning anew older traditions and awaking the curiosity…

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“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical education.”

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“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert…

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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and…

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“One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.”

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“Dave would marvel, “Do people not realize that they are living in the greater Renaissance? Could you imagine how much Isaac Newton would have loved to be able use a computer, the Internet, or bring up Google Earth? On one hand, people today have the greatest repository of knowledge in history, freely at their disposal. With powerful resources like online…

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“Nowadays it seems you learn only what is reasonable and relevant. I went to Rome with a young friend, educated on the latest lines, and who had taken historical honours at Cambridge. The first morning the pats of butter came up stamped with the Twins. “ Good old Romulus and Remus,” said I. “ Good old who? ” said she.…

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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

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“Classical education was only half the old system of European education--below it and above it there was the religious education that was common to the whole people, and the higher theological education that was peculiar to the clergy, who provided the majority of the teachers in both the other departments of education. Now the lowest level of this structure, which…

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