Walter Bagehot: “The teaching apparatus which has educated our public mind, which…”

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The teaching apparatus which has educated our public mind, which prepares our resolutions, which shapes our opinions, does not exist.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot laments the absence of a system that effectively educates and shapes public opinion.

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Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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Walter Bagehot: “The teaching apparatus which has educated our public mind, which prepares our resolutions, which shapes our opinions…”