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I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.

Source: The Schoolmaster, 1570.
-- Roger Ascham, ( 1515-1568), English writer, scholar; He was famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education.

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