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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Schools

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), "Shooting Niagra: And After?" Essays on Politics and Society (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022), pp. 265-299 (at 293):

Right schools were never more desirable than now. Nor ever more unattainable, by public clamouring and jargoning, than now.

Michael Gilleland at 4:26 AM

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