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— Gilbert K. Chesterton"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."
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Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
— Abraham Lincoln
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