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[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G.M. Trevelyan

1942

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Education The masses

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1942

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G.M. Trevelyan

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 18.

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