A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. ...

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

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Oliver Goldsmith

Irish physician and writer

November 10th, 1728 - April 4th, 1774

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