Culture is liberation, the removal of all the weeds, rubble and vermin that want to attack the tender buds of the plant.[Sondern Befreiung ist sie, Wegräumung alles Unkrauts, Schuttwerks, Gewürms, das die zarten Keime der Pflanzen antasten will.]

Source:(Cambridge, ed. 1983), Chapter 3. Schopenhauer as Educator, Section 1, Page 130
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