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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Textbook publishers don’t even bother to advertise at their conventions.