“Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.”

—  Georg Brandes

Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 26

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