General education is all that the world requires to emancipate it from the rule of all kinds of aristocracy.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “General education is all that the world requires to emancipate it from the rule of all kinds of aristocracy.”
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Woodhull argues that general education is essential for freeing society from various forms of aristocracy.
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