“Education has to do with insight, with valuing, with understanding, with the development of the power of discrimination, the ability to make choice amongst the possibilities of experience and to think and act in ways that distinguish men from animals and higher men from lower.”

—  Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 42

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