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“A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.” Herman Melville, Moby Dick “Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.” RalphWaldo Emerson, “Public and Private Education,” Uncollected Lectures “Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles... must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.” Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Wealthy investment banker: “’A’ students work for ‘B’ students.” Even wealthier investment banker: “Wrong. ‘B’ students work for ‘C’ students. ‘A’ students teach .” Overheard at a country club bar “A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” Robert Benchley, Chips Off the Old Benchley “There is no such thing as teaching, there’s only learning.” Porter Stansberry, founder, Stansberry Research A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism” “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston Telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.” William F. Buckley, Jr. (Yale 1950), Rumbles Left and Right “A barber learns to shave by shaving fools.” 16th century French proverb
“You can always tell a Harvard man... but you can’t tell him much.” President of Yale Arthur Twining Hadley, in the Chicago Daily Tribune , 1906
“Training is everything... cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nheadWilson “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” Robert Fulghum, book title “... students draw boys’ and girls’ bodies, tell stories about friends taking a bath together, and discuss who likes doing that and who doesn’t.” PBS NewsHour, “The Case for Starting Sex Education in Kindergarten”
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