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Quote by Bill Beattie
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, th

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie

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