“Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.”

—  Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: In moments of great peril it is easy to muster a powerful response to moral stimuli; but for them to retain their effect requires the development of a consciousness in which there is a new priority of values. Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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