"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.“


-Samuel Richardson

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

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