People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally w…

Thomas Huxley
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People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. ✨ Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, p.42, Cambridge University Press
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