Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world en…

Hannah Arendt
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1968). Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought, Viking Adult
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