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"<p></p> <p>You should know that people cling to mediocrity, to confusion and butterflies, to illusions and half-knowledge, to illiteracy, for a reason. For literacy is the discovery and the bearing of truth - the true knowledge of all things. And to bear the truth is always very difficult. To be educated, that is, to know reality and truth, requires extraordinary courage. Man comes to know the truth with his whole heart, his whole destiny, his whole being. Man can only be educated to life and death. Men are always more ready to submit to a veiled explanation of some inconvenient truth, that is to say, to illiteracy, than to the plain, simple, straightforward truth, which is education. People secretly know that everything that is true and human, and therefore real, is caught in blood, sweat and passion, but they prefer to whisper, with downcast eyes, that children come from the stork. It is more pleasing and more comfortable. But education is not brought by the stork.</p>"
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