"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.“


-Jean Giraudoux

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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

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