If one's organism is... the preeminent advantage, and the source of all others, education is the second. The best made brain would be a total loss without it... (Julien Offray de La Mettrie)

If one's organism is... the preeminent advantage, and the source of all others, education is the second. The best made brain would be a total loss without it...

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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