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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Approximate author period: c. 1872 AD · industrial
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Author of Human, All-Too-Human, here represented by complete numbered passages in Helen Zimmern’s 1909 and Paul V. Cohn’s 1913 English editions. Catalogue lifetime 1844–1900; historical philosophical arguments and dated viewpoints require context, rather than treating every sentence as general advice.
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