"A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism."
"As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind."
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Source: Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
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