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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

— Mortimer Adler The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body (1979)

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Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

How to Read a Book (1940)

Above all, money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue.

Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990)

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977)

It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.

Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990)

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G. K. Chesterton

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Confucius

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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