We accept without difficulty that people differ in athletic or musical talent, and refuse to accept that they differ in academic talent.

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• A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops. FSFelix Salmon2 Jun 2018education
• A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them IAIsaac Asimovc. 1959education
• A lack of education makes women's talk insipid and their solitude unbearable; learning is necessary to make them useful company MAMary Astellc. 1694–1697education
• A practical science of nature's forces could make humans the lords and possessors of nature RDRené Descartes8 Jun 1637education
• A puzzle whose categories can only be seen by the broadly educated is elitist by construction. RKRaph Koster2 Sept 2023education

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