Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and lately of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

- Peter Medawar, Review of Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man

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