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It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

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Youth is wasted on the young.

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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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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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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they sho...more

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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