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Ep 03 | Authority and Docility: Natural, Necessary, and Fundamental (Principle #3)

The Commonplace

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The Formative Effects of Education

Mason: "The maimed existence in which a man goes on from day to day without either nourishing or using his intellect is causing anxiety" Mason closes with an apt observation about the formative effects of education as seen in the cares and appetites of the young. She says that after some eight or twelve years brilliant teaching in school, the cinema show and the football field, polo or golf satisfy the needs of our formal peoples to whatever class they belong.

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