"School is where you go between when..." - Quote by John Updike
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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“Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.”
“A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.”
“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”
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“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”
“I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.”
“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”