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Quote by Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams

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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. – Henry Adams

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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My father was an autodidact. It wasnt a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasnt allowed to go. – Kate Atkinson

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