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An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents_ and his grandparents_ generation have got through molding it. We can__ help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:Remember we really don__ know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don__ know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.
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An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents_ and his grandparents_ generation have got through molding it. We can__ help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:Remember we really don__ know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don__ know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.
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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

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