Education makes us what we are. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

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Education makes us what we are.

In the original French

L’éducation nous fait ce que nous sommes

Claude Adrien Helvetius

1758

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Effects of education Education

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1758 Age of Enlightenment

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Claude Adrien Helvetius

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Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. De l'esprit [On the Mind]. Paris: Durand, 1758, essay 3, ch. 30.

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