Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper? 

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you. 

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.