Carolina QuotesIn dialectic the student … will get training in thinking, whereas the best that he gets now is a vague admonition to think for himself.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“The Power of the Word,” p. 55.
- work
- Language is Sermonic (1970)
- year
- 1970
- locator
- p. 55
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