Learning Short Courses

Famous quotes containing the words learning, short and/or courses:

    “Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
    And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
    —Edward Young (1683–1765)

    “You’ve got many refinements. I don’t think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)

    “The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)