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| #4901 | | Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller
that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor
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| #4902 | | Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for
even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
-- C.C. Colton
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| #4903 | | Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and
the instruction afterward.
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| #4904 | | F u cn rd ths u cnt spl wrth a dm!
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| #4905 | | f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd.
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| #4906 | | f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
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| #4907 | | f u cn rd ths, u r prbbly a lsy spllr.
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| #4908 | | Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking:
WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS: YOU WRITE:
Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton -- born 1608
of John Milton, who was born in 1608, is the
combination of beauty and power. Few have
excelled him in the use of the English language,
or for that matter, in lucidity of verse form,
'Paradise Lost' being said to be the greatest
single poem ever written."
Current historians have come to Most of the problems that now
doubt the complete advantageousness face the United States are
of some of Roosevelt's policies... directly traceable to the
bungling and greed of President
Roosevelt.
... it is possible that we simply do Professor Mitchell is a
not understand the Russian viewpoint... communist.
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| #4909 | | Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue
ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature.
This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.
-- Robert Parker, quoted in "Murder Ink", ed. D. Wynn
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| #4910 | | Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school
make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.
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