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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises… the best excellence in the children of any other land.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don’t like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.