Bertrand Russell quote: We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom ...

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

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