Linux Education

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

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.

Good day to avoid cops.  Crawl to school.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre.
                -- Gail Godwin

Graduate life: It's not just a job.  It's an indenture.

Graduate students and most professors are no smarter than undergrads.
They're just older.

He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.
                -- Benjamin Franklin

"He was a modest, good-humored boy.  It was Oxford that made him insufferable."

He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion
on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general
education and culture.
                -- Julia Norton McCorkle

[He] took me into his library and showed me his books, of which he had
a complete set.
                -- Ring Lardner