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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
~ Henry Brooks Adams
(1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles Adams
The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, 1918