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Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.
Charles Van Doren
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Charles Van Doren
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 12
Died: 2019
Died: April 9
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Charles Lincoln Van Doren
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