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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell
Education, Knowledge, Desire

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Russell Lowell
Education, Destiny, America
James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell
Education, Work, Knowledge
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.132

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

James Russell Lowell
Education, School, Church
James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.242

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