“It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.”

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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Barbara Jordan (1936–1996) American politician

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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

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“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist

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David Deutsch book The Fabric of Reality

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“You are "free" only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.”

Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!

Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: Every physician, shoemaker, mechanic or educator must know his shortcomings if he is to do his work and make his living. For some decades, you have begun to play a governing role on this earth. It is on your thinking and your actions that the future of humanity depends. But your teachers and masters do not tell you how you really think and are; nobody dares to voice the one criticism of you which could make you capable of governing your own fate. You are "free" only in one sense: free from education in governing your life yourself, free from self-criticism.

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Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

“We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.”

Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City

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