We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was mak…

Chuck Palahniuk
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We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. ✨ Chuck Palahniuk (2011). Survivor: A Novel, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company
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We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. ✨ Chuck Palahniuk (2011). Survivor: A Novel, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

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