“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.”

More likely attributable to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.107

United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

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“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.”

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