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<blockquote> Truth and reason are common to everyone and are no more his who spoke them first than his who speaks them later. It is no more according to Plato than according to me since both he and I equally see and understand it in the same manner. Bees pillage the flowers here and there, but they then make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme and marjoram; so the fragments borrowed from others he will transform and blend together to make a work that shall be absolutely his own; that is to say, his judgment. His education, labor, and study aim only at forming that.<ref> Montaigne, "Of the Education of Children", </i> Montaigne, <i>Selected Essays</i>, Charles Cotton and W. Hazlitt, trans, Blanchard Bates, ed., New York: The Modern Library, 1949, p. 22.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote> Truth and reason are common to everyone and are no more his who spoke them first than his who speaks them later. It is no more according to Plato than according to me since both he and I equally see and understand it in the same manner. Bees pillage the flowers here and there, but they then make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme and marjoram; so the fragments borrowed from others he will transform and blend together to make a work that shall be absolutely his own; that is to say, his judgment. His education, labor, and study aim only at forming that.<ref> Montaigne, "Of the Education of Children", </i> Montaigne, <i>Selected Essays</i>, Charles Cotton and W. Hazlitt, trans, Blanchard Bates, ed., New York: The Modern Library, 1949, p. 22.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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<p>Persons find themselves in a world: to live they must act, and they must act as best they can according to their judgment, be it sound or sour. To act, for better or for worse, according to ones judgment is the human condition. Hence educational policy at root pertains to forming man's powers of judgment.A1</p> | <p>Persons find themselves in a world: to live they must act, and they must act as best they can according to their judgment, be it sound or sour. To act, for better or for worse, according to ones judgment is the human condition. Hence educational policy at root pertains to forming man's powers of judgment.A1</p> | ||