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All education which is in its kind complete and good, is the means of forming character, and of making useful men and women.

— George Long

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It is an undoubted truth that, if a thing is not learned well, there is more harm done than good acquired.

He will learn to observe carefully, and not to be deceived, as we sometimes are, by appearances.

I believe that many children in the humblest schools will observe and learn as well as those in other schools.

A man who attempts to debate when he cannot listen must make a wretched display of impotence.

I think it is a truth, and an important truth, that the fundamentals of all school teaching ought to be the same.

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