"It was well remarked by an intelligent old farmer, ‘I would rather be taxed for the education of the..."

By: vivian on quarta-feira, fevereiro 25, 2015

“It was well remarked by an intelligent old farmer, ‘I would rather be taxed for the education of the boy, than the ignorance of the man. For one or the other I am compelled to pay.”



- Southern Cultivator, January 1848

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