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“Out of too much learning become mad.”

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Robert A. Burton, born in 1941, is an accomplished physician with a profound expertise in the medical field. He has dedicated himself to enhancing the quality of healthcare services. more

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

People Should Whole School Individual Education Willing Bears Miles Expenses Squares Self Education Charitable

Book:The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence

Source: The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence

“In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.”

Source: The Portable John Adams

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