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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — THAT is to be educated.
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Saturday Evening Post (1958-09-27); also in Adventures of the Mind : From the Saturday Evening Post (1962), by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler

 

Edith Hamilton

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