"Education, boy, is not something to prepare you for life. That is a vulgar American error.… It's something to take you out of life."
                
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            John Horne Burns, Lucifer with a Book
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Quotes by John Horne Burns, Lucifer with a Book
"She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis."
"He knew instinctively the cardinal function of a teacher – which is a stout lever to raw mass."