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"In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.“
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I studied secondary education."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
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