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“Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.”
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.”
― Less Than Words Can Say
― Less Than Words Can Say
“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
― The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be." Leon Bloy”
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