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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
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