“As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.”

—  E.M. Forster , book Aspects of the Novel

Source: Aspects of the Novel (1927), Chapter One: Introductory

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