"On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why,..." - Quote by Will Rogers
On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”
“Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.”
“Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.”
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“Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.”
“In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
More on Learning
“Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
“What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.”