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Children, taught either...

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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with Walker Evans, 1941.
-- James Agee, (Nov 27 1909-1955), US novelist, poet; He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for A Death in the Family.


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