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The Complete Essays, II:17 "On Presumption" [tr. Screech (1987)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations
I gladly come back to the theme of the absurdity of our education: its end has not been to make us good and wise but learned. And it has succeeded. It has not taught us to seek virtue and to embrace wisdom: it has impressed upon us their derivation and…