Richard Henry Pratt quotes
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“The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.”
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“We must kill the savage to save the man.”
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“In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.”
-- Richard Henry PrattSource : Richard Henry Pratt, Robert Marshall Utley (1979). “The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Its Origins, Purposes, Progress, and the Difficulties Surmounted”
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“In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.”
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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.315, Simon and Schuster
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