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The democratic enterprise is imperiled if any one of us says, "I do not have to try to think for myself, or make the most of myself, or become a citizen of the world republic of learning." The death of democracy....

is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment :-(

Robert M. Hutchins, "A Letter to the Reader," The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education, 1952

 

HMM! Words Matter! Truth Matters!

 

 

butterfly iris, 'Nada', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

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