"Multis ne magistri veri essent magisterii falsum nomen obstitit: dum de se plus omnibus quam sibi dumque quod dicebantur, sed non erant, esse crediderunt, quod esse poterant non fuerunt."
— Education

January 1, 1970

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A meaningless master’s degree has kept many from becoming true masters. Believing others rather than themselves, and believing to be what they were cried up to be but really were not, they never became what they could have become. — Petrarch, “On the Master’s Degree,” De remediis utriusque fortunae, C. Rawski, trans. (1967), p. 59