We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one o…

Bertrand Russell
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ✨ Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22, p.356, Psychology Press
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ✨ Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22, p.356, Psychology Press

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