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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.

I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

It’s a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.