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Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Age: 88 †
Born: 1799
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 4
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Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
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As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.
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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.
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Many are those who can argue few are those who can converse
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The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
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Sympathy wanting, all is wanting its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.
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Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.
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