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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when ...more

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which childr...more

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What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects mor...more