"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think universities stifle writers. I think they don't stifle enought of them.  The kind of writing that can be taught is the kind you then have to teach people not to read."

-Flannery O'Connor

Meanwhile, in Guinea

students flood to the airport, the only place that has light to study by after dark

 (from USAToday)

"It's a bit patronizing for us 21-year-olds to try to start to change the world. Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical."

- Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders

The Danger of Never Maturing:

"The truly dangerous period in life is the time when the child has learned the limits of his parents' control, and how to circumvent their control, but has not yet understood or accepted the underlying reasons for doing and not doing things."

- Thomas Sowell

C&F on the spot again.

Cox & Forkum Cartoon: