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Roger ran his hand over his face, unable to find words. If he had been asked an hour before, he would have strongly spoken out in favor of gender equality. Now, as the son of a Presbyterian priest, it seemed to him that a decent young woman should really be an ignoramus on their wedding night.

Science, I repeat, has been the source of all the successes achieved by humanity, starting with its cradle, lost in darkness.

Science, which had been banned for so long, a science persecuted throughout the Middle Ages, won its independence at the cost of the services it rendered to people ...

Today there is no former confidence in the progressiveness of the Enlightenment and the correctness of the path chosen by his fathers. On the contrary, it is increasingly seen traces of the crisis of thinking.

The biggest mistake a teacher can make is to think that students are interested in what they are talking about.

To educate is to give his neighbor a different error, better than that which he esteemed for good to stick.

Question: How do wandering spirits trained? They do this, presumably, is not the way we are?
Answer: They are studying the past and searching for funds to rise. They are looking to see what is happening in the places that they visit; they listen to the speech of the enlightened people and judgment of spirits more advanced than they are, and all this leads them to thoughts, which they did not have before.

"Progressive" educators are unable to offer a decent alternative to the "obscurantism" of religious precepts.