I dont care what your excuse is, I dont care what you think God told you to do, if you are in the business of closing childrens minds and obliterating their capacity to imagine, and depriving them of a capacity to laugh, then you are a criminal. Maybe not under the law, but under any decent system of morality.Shame on anyone who brainwashes a child and attacks their individual liberty and deprives them of the freedom that is the very definition of a human being. Shame.
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Michael Grant was a 20th-century British classicist, numismatist, historian and author. Michael Grant was an English classicist, Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Imagination — The creative power of the mind and visionary thinking
  • Power — The dynamics of influence, authority, and leadership

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