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from JANE EYRE
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte¨
Education should always be the weedkiller of prejudice. Ignorance feeds it.
These words come from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855), published in 1847. It was one of the very first novels to use a first person narrative, which gives us particular insight into Jane’s state of mind.
Like the books by Charlotte’s sisters, Emily and Anne Brontë, Jane Eyre was originally published under a male pseudonym – Currer Bell.
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