"Instead of giving money to found colleges..." - Quote by Will Rogers
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
More by Will Rogers
“This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.”
“There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.”
“Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.”
More on Education
“Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.”
“Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.”
“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.”
More on Prohibition
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
“After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.”
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”