Quote by John Updike
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. – Louis LAmour

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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. – Will Rogers

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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde, “The True Function and Value of Criticism; With Some Remarks on the

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