Word: laborerâ
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Clerk vs. Laborer???Some heat was diffused by Dr. W. W. Vaughan, headmaster of famed Rugby School, who addressed his colleagues on the evils of over-education. He did not exactly say that "ignorance is bliss", but that "the farm laborer is often better educated than the clerk, whose head is filled with half-digested facts. A colleague took issue: "Tainted with the public school accent! A man like Dr. Vaughan who educates the more fortunate section of the population, contemplates with equanimity the ignorance of the rest of the country and speaks glibly of its happiness. The plowman...
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