"Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.“


-Bryant H. McGill

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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

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