In dialectic the student ... will get training in thinking, whereas the best that he gets now is a vague admonition to think for himself. (Richard Weaver)

In dialectic the student ... will get training in thinking, whereas the best that he gets now is a vague admonition to think for himself.

Richard Weaver

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