...Over time advantages arise from this commerce (between our minds and words). One is mental expansion. Not only do our minds become better stored, but they also become more pliant, better able both to embrace new ideas and to judge old ones. They can analyze and synthesize on command. Our intellects graduate to a hard-won independence. They can cut through thickets of official obfuscation and doubletalk. Classically educated people are not the prime consumers of propaganda.
~T. L. Simmons, Climbing Parnassus, p.169
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