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“Mere massiveness, muchness, manyness, becomes a determinant of learning; yet it appears easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than that all that ‘information’ should go over into the realm of wisdom.”

"People too young to know themselves and too uneducated to learn easily are encouraged to acquire specific skills for immediate economic reasons. This... is not peculiar to the American education, except for the irony of it. For whereas in planned economies, such sacrifices are enforced in the name of social productiveness, here they are urged for private profit."