Quotes with distemper

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• Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

  ― Gerald Early
  American essayist and American (1952 - )
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• Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

  ― Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• kindergarten
• applications
• dewey-style
• meaningless
• enthusiasm
• repentance

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