Ezra PoundReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
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Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist, said to his friend Michele Besso: “Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”
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