There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young peo…

Thomas Huxley
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There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). T. H. Huxley on Education, p.10, Cambridge University Press
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There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). T. H. Huxley on Education, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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