"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.“


-John Keegan

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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

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