If the student got little from his mates, he got little more from his masters. The four years passed at college were, for his purposes, wasted. Harvard College was a good school, but at bottom what the boy disliked most was any school at all. He did not want to be one in a hundred - one per cent of an education. He regarded himself as the only person for whom his education had value, and he wanted the whole of it. (Henry Adams)

If the student got little from his mates, he got little more from his masters. The four years passed at college were, for his purposes, wasted. Harvard College was a good school, but at bottom what the boy disliked most was any school at all. He did not want to be one in a hundred - one per cent of an education. He regarded himself as the only person for whom his education had value, and he wanted the whole of it.

Henry Adams

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