Quote#Education
Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the…
Quote byH. G. Wells · 1866–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 24: The Natural History of the Selenites.
English (original)
Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.
— H. G. Wells
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