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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. — Henry David Thoreau

Personal journal

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau
1850
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Downsides of educationEducation
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Personal journal
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1850
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Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau, Henry David. The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861, edited by Damion Searls. New York Review of Books, 2009, pt. 2.
Original citation
Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. Nov. 1850.

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