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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. ✨ Martin Luther King (1992). The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr, p.124, Univ of California Press
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. ✨ Martin Luther King (1992). The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr, p.124, Univ of California Press

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