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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Shut up you schools and restoration rooms

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00 When you are saying "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out02br
00 at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing", are you including me? If so then I should proceed at once to the doctor, for I am leading a double life without us (weselves'?) knowing it.0-
  

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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Hello Mr Milky.12br
10When you are saying "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out12br
10at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing", are you including me? If so then I should proceed at once to the doctor, for I am leadin
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00are you including me?12blockquote
10The quote is by Emerson, an American poet and philosopher. He lived from 1803 to 1882 -- long before you were born, so I doubt that his remark was meant to include you! Rather, it is a commentary on American education in the 19th century (which might still be a valid criticism of the educational sy
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0 Was that before or after the Illuminists got their hands on it?02br
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10are you including me?22blockquote
20The quote is by Emerson, an American poet and philosopher. He lived from 1803 to 1882 -- long before you were born, so I doubt that his remark was meant to include you! Rather, it is a commentary on American education in the 19th
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