“It's impossible not to admire a person who devoted his life to his ideas.”
Gideon Levy (1953) Israeli journalist
This Biography Makes It Clear: The Founder of the Palestinian Popular Front Was Right (April 15, 2018)
“An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.”
Source: Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977), p. 255
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Deeds Rather Than Words (1963)
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