Nous ne sommes pas ce que nous avons fait nous-mêmes, mais ce que nous avons choisi de laisser les autres faire de nous.

[« We are not what we have made ourselves, but what we have chosen to allow others to make us »]

Harold E. Gorst – Le Fléau de l’Éducation (1901)

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via @la_coginition

Whatever may once have been the nursery of the human race, it is now to a great extent the school. Some part—it generally is the best part—of education takes place outside the class-room; but it must be remembered that the atmosphere of home is generally impregnated with the conventional traditions of the school and of the university.