"Teacher" to Johnny
The Children's Story (1982)
“Some millions of other people felt the same helplessness, but few of them were seeking education, and to them helplessness seemed natural and normal, for they had grown up in the habit of thinking a steam-engine or a dynamo as natural as the sun, and expected to understand one as little as the other.”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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