Quote#Education
There is no question that education has been more generally diffused…
Quote byOrestes Brownson · 1803–1876
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Liberalism and Progress (1864) http://orestesbrownson.org/liberalism-and-progress-oct.-1864-dr.-brownson-refutes-the-liberalism-of-general-croaker-the-beginnings-of-liberalism.html.
English (original)
There is no question that education has been more generally diffused than it was in the middle ages, but it is doubtful if the number of thinkers has been increased, or real mental culture extended. Education loses in thoroughness and depth what it gains in surface.
— Orestes Brownson
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