Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.