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Secondly, get rid of all dependence upon the central department. If…
Quote byAuberon Herbert · 1838–1906
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: State Education: A Help or Hindrance?.
English (original)
Secondly, get rid of all dependence upon the central department. If you do not as yet perceive that public money can not wisely, in any shape, be taken for education, still refuse the grant that the central department offers as a bribe for the acceptance of its mischievous interference. Until individual self-reliance has grown among us, let each town administer education in its own way.
— Auberon Herbert
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