Carolina QuotesEducation is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. … The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“Education and the individual,” p. 43.
- work
- Life Without Prejudice (1965)
- year
- 1965
- locator
- p. 43
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