“Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.”

—  William Torrey Harris

Source: The Philosophy of Education (His 1889 book)

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American philosopher 1835–1909

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