"No institution will be better than the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
No institution will be better than the institutor.
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“Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.”
“I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.”
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