Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. (Elbert Hubbard)

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Elbert Hubbard

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