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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Approximate author period: c. 1778 AD · early modern

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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Approximate author period: c. 1778 AD · early modern
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