Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On August 31, 2011 @ 8:00 am In Civil Society,Complexity & Emergence,Education,History | Comments Disabled
… is from page 99 of historian William Manchester’s 1992 book A World Lit Only by Fire [1]; here, Manchester is writing about 16th-century Europe:
[T]he sons of merchants led the way in learning foreign languages. They were already among the most attentive pupils. The growth of industry gave education a new urgency. Literacy had been an expensive indulgence in an agrarian culture, but in an urban, merchant world it was mandatory.
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