Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - October 20, 1910) on School and Tradition(published by RevoltSource) |
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Russian Writer, Novelisst, Vegetarian, Pacifist, Christian Theorist, Libertarian, Ally of Anarchists, and Regarded as one of the Greatest Authors of all Time
: A Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909; the fact that he never won is a major controversy. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #19 on Education Struggle Quotes >> School and Tradition
“It usually happens that when an idea which has been useful and even necessary in the past becomes superfluous, that idea, after a more or less prolonged struggle, yields its place to a new idea which was till then an ideal, but which thus becomes a present idea.”
Source: "Patriotism and Government," by Leo Tolstoy, May 10, o.s., 1900. Part 2.
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