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The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Edward Gibbon
Education, School, Men

The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

Edward Gibbon
Plato, School, Exercise
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.55

Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.

Edward Gibbon
School, Rome, Years
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.299

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