“I am daily more amazed at the ignorance of grown-up”

—  George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: I am daily more amazed at the ignorance of grown-up men and women, called gentlemen and gentlewomen, who, with so many means at their command, are little better than Hottentots in disguise.... These people may read a newspaper, which is the best thing that they do read... But the chief reading of these silly people is stories, tales, novels, and works of some kind of fiction, and not even the best works of the kind. They are very much in the state of those who commit excess in strong drink.

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English classical scholar 1800–1879

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