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Robert Burns and the Scottish School of Common Sense
When, in 1707, Scotland bowed down to Wesminster patronage, it was a Country of intellectual superiority for it had 5 universities to England’s 2. Moreover, Scotland’s school education system was also superior to England’s making the Scots the most literate…