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" The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. "

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" American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. "

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