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Kaibara Ekken
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“The end of learning is the formation of character.”
Kaibara Ekken (1630–1714) first seen 1710 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ten Kun (1710) sec. 2. Reported in Bernard E. Farber (ed.) A Teacher's Treasury of Quotations (McFarland & Co, 1985) p. 13
“The five worst infirmities that afflict the female are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy, and silliness.”
Kaibara Ekken (1630–1714) said by 1714 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Onna Daigaku (c. 1729) sec. 6. Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Women and Wisdom of Japan (London: John Murray, 1905)