Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). Emile: Or, On Education, p.38, Basic Books
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