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jonwood
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:13 pm 
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This purports to be a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote. Anyone know the source in Emerson's writings?
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Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such. We cannot understand their speech or their mode of life, and so our Education is remote and accidental and not closely applied to the fact.~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6CkAAA ... ch&f=false
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Phaedrus: Thank you very much. Exactly what I was looking for.

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