G.M. TrevelyanThinkers

Civilization's life-blood is disinterested intellectual curiosity.

Education is a process that 'has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education is responsible for having produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.