My wife calls this the best G.K. Chesterton quote ever: “How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about (arithmetic), and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?”
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by Jon Swerens on January 12, 2009 in Asides
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From The Twitters
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