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That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

—Ezra Pound, 1934

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

—E.M. Forster, 1951

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851
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