Words Worth Noting - August 23, 2023

“There are no people who are uneducated. There are only a large number of people who receive various forms of a thoroughly bad education. Human intelligence has always received some cultivation, but unfortunately it is often an evil or unwise cultivation.”

G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile, November, 1908, quoted in standalone boxed quotations headed “Education” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)