"John Adams and Thomas Jefferson knew where they stood. They sought, for themselves and their posterity, the vita beata, the happy life. And they hoped for a stable commonwealth. These two men knew intimately Aristotle's vital, now neglected distinction between the education that democrats like and the education that can preserve democracy. Good intention aren't enough.
~T. L. Simmons, Climbing Parnassus, p.210
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