John Ruskin Quotes

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

John Ruskin

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• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Education
  • Control