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Quote from Henry Brooks Adams,


"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount
of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."


By:

Henry Brooks Adams (more quotes by Henry Brooks Adams or books by/about Henry Brooks Adams)


(1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles Adams

Source:

The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, 1918

Categories:

Education, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learning

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