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 |  |  | #4933 |  | I think your opinions are reasonable, except for the one about my mental instability.
 -- Psychology Professor, Farifield University
 
 |  |  |  | #4934 |  | "I'm returning this note to you, instead of your paper, because it (your paper) presently occupies the bottom of my bird cage."
 -- English Professor, Providence College
 
 |  |  |  | #4935 |  | If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard.
 -- Edward Holyoke
 
 |  |  |  | #4936 |  | If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!
 
 |  |  |  | #4937 |  | If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? 
 |  |  |  | #4938 |  | If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins
 
 |  |  |  | #4939 |  | If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I
 
 |  |  |  | #4940 |  | If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.  See in
 college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural
 method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall
 learn what you have no taste or capacity for.  The college, which should
 be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the
 young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.
 I would have the studies elective.  Scholarship is to be created not
 by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.  The wise
 instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the
 attractions the study has for himself.  The marking is a system for schools,
 not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to
 put on a professor.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 |  |  |  | #4941 |  | If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? -- Lily Tomlin
 
 |  |  |  | #4942 |  | If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. -- Wittgenstein
 
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