On the record
Unless you get the idea of truth so pure that you cannot be false in anything, your education is a failure.
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Booker T. Washington
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gutenberg.orgUnless you get the idea of truth so pure that you cannot be false in anything, your education is a failure.
He asserts that education is a failure if it does not instill an unwavering commitment to truth.
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