Sunday, August 13

 

I paid no attention
whatsoever to books or study and regarded lectures as a joke which, in fact,
they were if you discern anything funny in mawkish, obtuse mumblings on
subjects any intelligent person could master single-handed in a few months. The
exams I found childish and in fact the whole University concept I found to be a
sham. The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his
son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could
always be relied upon to make a break of at least 25 even with a bad cue. I
sincerely believe that if University education were universally available and
availed of, the country would collapse in one generation.
Flann O'Brien

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