Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themsel…

Richard Dawkins
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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