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Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I’m not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.