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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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