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" The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements, after they were made; and several of those learned societies have chosen to remain, for a long time, the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices... "
Reasons against government interference in education. By an observer of the ... - Page 47
by Reasons - 1843
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On the History of Economic Thought

A. W. Bob Coats - 1992 - 484 pages
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The Economic Ideas of Ordinary People: From Preferences to Trade

David M. Levy - 1992 - 341 pages
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Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society

Jerry Z. Muller - 1995 - 292 pages
...endowed the Oxford faculty with an assured stream of income. The universities, he wrote, had become "the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete...been hunted out of every other corner of the world." The universities produced students "completely ignorant of every thing which is the common subject...
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An Anthology of Single Land Tax Thought

Kenneth C. Wenzer - 1997 - 490 pages
...and we also know what no less an authority than Adam Smith said about universities—that they were "the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete...been hunted out of every other corner of the world." When, however, we find Ogilvie hurling this very quotation at his fellow professors in connection with...
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New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century

Nicholas A. Hans - 1951 - 274 pages
...attacked old education from the utilitarian point of view as useless and called the Public Schools 'sanctuaries' in which exploded systems and obsolete...prejudices found shelter and protection after they have been 'hunted out of every other corner of the world' ( Wealth of Nations, section on education)....
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The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V, Books 4-5

Adam Smith - 2000 - 676 pages
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Adam Smith: Critical Responses, Volume 5

Hiroshi Mizuta - 2000 - 376 pages
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Work and Authority in Industry: Managerial Ideologies in the Course of ...

Reinhard Bendix - 1963 - 464 pages
...though some no doubt have. The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements after they were made; and several...they had been hunted out of every other corner of the world.22 And in the same context Smith emphasized that the universities were the ideal place in which...
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A Plea to Economists who Favour Liberty: Assist the Everyman

Daniel B. Klein - 2001 - 128 pages
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Collins Quotation Finder

2001 - 838 pages
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