"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
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"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.“
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