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Quotation of the Week 21

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.” Marc Twain, A Curious Dream, 1972 »

Quotation of the Week 20

I have been wondering about the future of education in this country for some time. So, I decided to gather together a few quotes that will help me understand it better. Here they go: “(On Cambridge University…) This place is the Devil, or at least his principle residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute, and pun, the emp... »