Kent/education

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“Main Street was never the same. I read Gide and tried to
translate Proust. Now nothing is real except French wine.
For absurdity is reality, my loneliness unreal, my mind tired.
And I shall die an old Parisian.”
—Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968)

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
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