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I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times sev...more

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For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not b...more

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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school a...more

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved...more

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how mu...more

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Never let your education interfere with your learning.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for a...more

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in ...more

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is th...more