But, in truth, all I understand as to that particular is only this, that the greatest and most important difficulty of human science is the education of children.
Michel de Montaigne
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- Essays (1877 edition; original essays first published 1580), Book I, Chapter XXV, Of the Education of Children. Translated by Charles Cotton; edited by William Carew Hazlitt. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3600/pg3600-images.html
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