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The highest result of education is tolerance - Helen Keller
by kayoone 10y ago
The highest result of education is tolerance - Helen Keller
- vixen99 10y agoLet's remember that tolerance is not an absolute good. Indeed that phrase is almost meaningless unless qualified. . . . presumably those downvoting will tolerate just about anything and leave their discriminatory faculties to rot. That's pretty much how many folk behaved in Europe earlier in the 20th century and look where that got us. In her essay 'Optimism' Helen Keller provides the context for her oft-quoted statement. The retailing of phrases outwith a context then presented as some kind of ultimate truth is strangely disingenuous.